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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Failure
Samuel Beckett

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Knowledge
Robert Benchley

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For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. [Psalms 66:10]
Trials
Bible

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I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Reasonableness
Clint Eastwood

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Mistakes
Albert Einstein

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The impossible is often the untried.
Impossibility
Jim Goodwin

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I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Jean Kerr

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Excellence
Abraham Lincoln

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What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?
Conservatives
Abraham Lincoln

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Courage
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Let us be tried by our actions.
Action
Motto

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Friends and Friendship
Ovid

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Change
Alexander Pope

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I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Drugs
Lou Reed

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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Opportunity
John D. Rockefeller

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Uncategorised
Theodore Roosevelt

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Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
Dreams
William Shakespeare

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
Writers and Writing
George Bernard Shaw

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Adversity
Sirach

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.
Life and Living
Robert Thibodeau

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
Change
Source Unknown

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Effort
Source Unknown

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If you've never failed you've never tried.
Failure
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun