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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, Him, Fails

America... 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

Money, Car, Two

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Truth, Sex, Tell

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Law, Himself

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Nelson Mandela

Lose, Dignity, Rob

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

Experience, Greatest, Himself

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo

Society, Down, Others

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Truth, Keep, Hand

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Stupidity, Discover, Involve

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry

Wife, She, Faithful

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

Successful, Feeling, Friendly

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Victor Hugo

Evil, Thoughts, Escape

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar

Help, Someone, Hero

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

Give, Thoughts, Against

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney

Men, Business, Young

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac

Country, Ridiculous, Paris

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan

Education, Between, Anyone

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.
Leonardo DiCaprio

Cool, Person, Individual

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal

Same, Sheep, Interests

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
Cameron Diaz

Life, Time, Business

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

Truth, Society, Negative

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Moliere

Pet, Dog, Stand

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

Society, Bored, Two

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks

Hurt, Place, Again

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.
Pearl S. Buck

Alone, Live, Mind

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

Truth, Cannot, Walk

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

Loneliness, Writer, Explain

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Time, Nothing, Friend

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Aeschylus

God, Hard, Hand

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