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There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the… — Virginia Woolf
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be… — Ayn Rand
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. — Paul Hawken
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste… — John Fante
Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep… — Ralph Marston
Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom. — Leonard Ravenhill
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. — Richard Diebenkorn
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry… — Wendell Berry
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to… — Erich Fromm
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the… — Plato
Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. — Scott Turow
Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. — Lynn G. Robbins
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on… — P.J. O'Rourke
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. — David Starr Jordan
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire… — John Owen
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul — Plato
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a… — Ronald Reagan

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