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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. — Andy Rooney
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems… — Salman Rushdie
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas… — Salman Rushdie
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? — Bertrand Russell
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that… — Jerry Saltz
The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate… — Rick Santorum
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three. — Marilyn vos Savant
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio… — Rob Sheffield
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. — Alan K. Simpson
I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like… — Jessica Simpson
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to… — Alfred P. Sloan
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to… — Zadie Smith
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. — John Steinbeck
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal
A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they… — John Sununu
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. — Rabindranath Tagore
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising. — Matt Taibbi
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing… — Hunter S. Thompson
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of… — Charles Dudley Warner
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. — J C Watts
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself… — Evelyn Waugh
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's… — Hanna Rosin
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We… — Linus Pauling
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting… — Elliot Perlman

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