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You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

Never Your time Successful Wasting
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Past Pioneer Future Prisoner
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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Today Courage Wisdom. Suffer
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Age Art Artists Course
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

Defend Excuse Never Resist
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“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”

Defend Yourself Make Excuses
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I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

People Blunt Dealing Attempt
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People will challenge you, question you, try to get you off track. Don't listen to the temptation to act out of character.

Challenge Question Track Listen
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
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In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

His Midst Our Failed
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I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

Have Reason Should Walk
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In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

Reality Worthy Useless Attempt
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Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

Satan Always Tempt Others
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Achieve Answer Asking Attempting
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Associate Bad Bad Men Combine
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Contempt Culture Require Disrespect
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I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Adversary Attention Entitlement Gain
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Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Any Attempt Deal His
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Attempt Blood Deep Description
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.

Continue Exist Force Long
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Deed Greatest Last Reason
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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Wisest Priests Contemptible Look
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Bore Bored Contemptible Even
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Anything Attempt Courage Had
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

After Always First Friend
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

People Say Always Can't
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What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Attempt Could Fail Great
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Attempt Fail Great Nothing
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
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Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form the inner core of the beliefs of organized adult crime.

Adult Aspirations Attitudes Becomes
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If you can outlast the temptation satan will bring your way and the provocation man will throw at you, then God will bring you to POWER

Power Provocation Satan God
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'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Answer Billionaire Brains Brainy
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Been Companion Dinner Done
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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