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"I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them."
"Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover."
"Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised."
"Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!"
"We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas."
"Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power."
"Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good."
"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."
"The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble."
"I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors."
"You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."
"I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them."
"The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems."
"I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people."
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."
"Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect."
"I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly."
"I live inside God's dream for me. I don't try to tell God what I'm supposed to do. . . God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself."
"I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it"
