"Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!"
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"We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)"
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"The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing."
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"Try something different. Surrender."
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"Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it."
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"One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed."
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"The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God."
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"Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer."
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"That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff."
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"We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible."
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"Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is."
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"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word."
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"It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it."
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"And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!"
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"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it."
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"....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard."
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"No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here"
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"When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart."
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me."
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