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"The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option."
"I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance."
"When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away."
"Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up."
"When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things."
"We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles."
"You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead."
"If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct."
"I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy."
"Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques."
"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."
"I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed."
"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."
"If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties."
"A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually."
"Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do."
"The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better."
"The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor with a minimum of effort and capability; but to improve this easily attainable standard requires much application and more than a trace of wisdom. If you merely try to bring just a little extra knowledge and cleverness to bear upon your investment program, instead of realizing a little better than normal results, you may well find that you have done worse."
"Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment."
"I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league."
