"Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said."
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"If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder."
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"I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score."
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"Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park."
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"You are the somewhere you are trying to get to."
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"You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper."
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"I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job try telling me what to do - I become very stubborn and really rather unpleasant."
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
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"Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities."
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"I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people."
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"There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment."
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"Don't try to make me grow up before my time."
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"I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing."
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"There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?"
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"I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes."
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"One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible."
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"If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent."
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"It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing."
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"Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day."
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"As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill."
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