"If you don't fail, you're not even trying."
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"If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark."
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"They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream."
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"If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to try to serve them in every way possible."
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"What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic."
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"The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition."
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"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
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"Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."
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"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?"
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"The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply."
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"If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance."
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"I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me."
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"I think Aussies try to stay humble."
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"George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it."
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"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything."
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"Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful."
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"They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am."
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"It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you."
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"I'm through accepting limits ''cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!"
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"Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon."
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