"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."
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"For me giving up is way harder than trying."
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"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise."
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"Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place."
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"The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union."
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"Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it."
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"I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
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"If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."
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"A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is."
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"I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could"
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"We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly."
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"When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming."
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"Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them."
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement."
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"Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day."
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"If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly."
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"Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'"
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"The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it."
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"I gotta big mouth, I can't help it, I talk from my heart, I'm real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it's not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that haven't been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger."
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