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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. — Maxwell Bodenheim
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this… — Bernard Crick
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely,… — Jacques Ellul
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… — Christopher Hitchens
Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race. — Victor J. Stenger
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as… — Karl Popper
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure… — Stewart Edward White
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham
I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child. — Ben Kingsley
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. — George Washington
All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions… — Unknown Author
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for… — Pope Paul VI
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. — Albert Einstein
It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth… — Robert Kennedy
An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the… — M. Scott Peck
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. — Andre Malraux

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