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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating… — Fulton J. Sheen
It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it… — Harmon Killebrew
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. — Seneca the Younger
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries. — Publilius Syrus
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. — Ambrose Bierce
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or… — Henry Moore
God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail. — Phil Ochs
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful… — Paul Cezanne
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments… — Paul Klee
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out… — Eugen Herrigel
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and… — Joaquin Miller
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which… — Max Planck
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with… — Theodore Roosevelt
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case… — William Osler
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the… — Norman Vincent Peale
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries. — Arnold Palmer
This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger. — David Letterman
Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You… — Will Rogers
A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order… — Frederick Lenz
I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his… — Domhnall Gleeson
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought… — David Hare
An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty. — Jay Park

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