"Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken."
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"I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations."
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"Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back."
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"If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact."
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"There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'"
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"We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms."
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"The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison."
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"Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are."
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"Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy."
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"One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected."
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"Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain."
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"If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others."
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"There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."
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"Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already."
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"If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down."
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"It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment."
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"I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again."
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"We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try."
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"The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it."
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"We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible."
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