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How to use the word tries in a Sentence? Page #12

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

– James Albert Michener

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A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

– Robert Reich

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Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.

– Dr. Robert Schuller

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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 Simpson

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Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

– Unknown

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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

– J. C. Watts

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September tries its best to have us forget summer.

– Bern Williams

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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

– Jim Bishop

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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't perceive, and he's a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

– William Blake

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