"If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try."
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"The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company."
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"Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world."
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"I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems."
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"not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole."
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"Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction."
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"Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss"
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"More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure."
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"There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning."
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"Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."
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"What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History."
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"You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself"
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"To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality."
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"Some see risk as a reason not to try. Some see it as an obstacle to overcome. The risk is the same; to try or not depends on your perspective."
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"Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?"
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"We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs."
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"I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again."
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"One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering."
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"The game will tell you what to do on the floor, and that's what I try to do."
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