Attempts Quotes
526 quotes by 461 authors
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If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal…
— Orrin Hatch
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...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do."
— John Hickenlooper
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He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance…
— Ernst Engel
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All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small…
— Robert D. Maurer
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Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion…
— Richard Kirwan
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has…
— Hannes Alfven
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances…
— Joseph Lovering
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best…
— Alexander Markovich Polyakov
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Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.…
— Michael Dummett
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Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a…
— Nils Heribert-Nilsson
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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H. L. Mencken
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt…
— Levi Eshkol
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that…
— Alan Garner
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