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  • And we love to dance - especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
  • In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
  • The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
  • America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
  • The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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  • Hunter S. Thompson America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Stendhal The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Robert Townsend A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Joseph Conrad A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joaquin Miller 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 dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Alan K. Simpson 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
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Sacha Guitry An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Dick Gregory And we love to dance - especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Brit Morin Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 132-133
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James A. Michener Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Bob Dylan Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact with one that tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Gray Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Aeschylus God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Busta Rhymes Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Kofi Annan However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Burning Spear I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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