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Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant… — Stephen Jay Gould
You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is… — Larry Page
'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is… — Alan Cohen
I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself… — Tori Amos
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the… — John F. Kennedy
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I… — Guy Kawasaki
I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make… — George Carlin
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the… — Robert Breault
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world. — Moliere
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. — John Frusciante
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait… — Tom Peters
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches… — Vernon Howard
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. — Harriet Martineau
You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are… — Byron Katie
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire… — Ludwig von Mises
I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if… — Linus Pauling

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