"An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force."
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"There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live"
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"By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat"
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"Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all."
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"It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing."
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"Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity."
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"Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while."
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"Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
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"I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do."
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"Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things."
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"Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!"
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"For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now."
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"I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style."
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"I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead."
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"I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn."
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"We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key."
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"The real business of life is trying to understand each other."
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"I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated."
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"Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?"
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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."
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