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Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality… — Edgar Cayce
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things… — Meher Baba
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to… — Allen Wheelis
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked… — Roger Wolcott Sperry
My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will… — Bo Sanchez
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who… — William Dobell
When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to… — John Elway
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns… — Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and… — George H. Smith
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort — Aristotle
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in… — B. C. Forbes
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Barnaby Keeney
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a… — Geoff Nicholson
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance. — Roger McDonald
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… — Paul Feyerabend
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven

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