Attempt Quotes

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If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this… — Medard Boss
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro
Iâ€™ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a… — Jan Morris
We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and… — Zhou Yongkang
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. — Robert A. Heinlein
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they… — Gichin Funakoshi
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. — Samuel Johnson
If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to… — Steve Pavlina
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe… — Robert Nozick
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer… — Ellen Key
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person. — Giacomo Casanova
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from… — George Henry Borrow
For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community… — Alan Brinkley
Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until… — Robert Slade
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an… — Ludwig von Mises
There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing… — Beverly Engel
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people… — Hakim Bey
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens… — Bhagat Singh

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