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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to… — Albert Einstein
Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive. — Paulo Coelho
Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off… — Paulo Coelho
Always saying, "I tried" when you didn't really try at all. — Paulo Coelho
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ... — Seth Godin
Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is… — Ronald Reagan
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want… — Kathleen Winsor
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. — Oprah Winfrey
I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat… — Bill W.
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman
If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive. — Rajneesh
Try throwing a ball just once for a dog. It would be like eating only one peanut or potato chip. Try to ignore the importuning… — Roger Caras
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit. — Mark Twain
I was just confused about why I was feeling overwhelmed all the time and trying to adjust to having people work for me. Surprisingly, I… — Felicia Day
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different… — John Denver
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be… — Raymond Chandler
The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping… — Billy Campbell
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly. — Unknown Author
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I… — Halle Berry
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land… — D. H. Lawrence
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and… — D. H. Lawrence

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