Attempt Quotes

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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. — Richard Rorty
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We… — J C Ryle
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of… — Rudolf Virchow
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if… — Auguste Comte
Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts,… — Richard Branson
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand… — Arthur Machen
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. — Michael Haneke
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to… — Queen Victoria
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that… — Maurice Duplessis
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I… — Potter Stewart
Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the… — Marcus Buckingham
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion
At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever… — Steve Blank
That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong. — Aaron Levie
Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who… — Elton Gallegly
It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into… — John Dalton
Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism… — Michael Shermer
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction.… — Christa Wolf
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well,… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

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