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Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose.

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As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.

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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

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I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

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I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

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Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

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He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

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Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

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The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

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When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

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