"Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not."
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"When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have."
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"Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard."
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"When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook - it's always good!"
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"Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph."
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"The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you."
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"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
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"Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked"
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"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change..."
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"My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths."
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"I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day."
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"You do not know what you can miss before you try."
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
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"If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is."
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"CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it"
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"If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all."
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"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"
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"Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day."
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"Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would."
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