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Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people… — Ian Frazier
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life. — Ezra Taft Benson
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans. — Monica Crowley
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P.J. O'Rourke
All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it. — Edward Rutherfurd
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. — James Mercer
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets… — Henry Rollins
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem… — Alice Walker
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet… — Richard Dawkins
The Nasdaq bubble and crash were followed by the real estate bubble then subprime crash, which led to the unprecedented printing of trillions of dollars… — Robert Kiyosaki
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China.… — Martin Jacques
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things… — Deb Caletti
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What… — Rose George
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together. — Charlie Trotter
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen… — Noam Chomsky
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. — Tom Stoppard
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas,… — Ben Shapiro

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