Attempts Quotes
526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors
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Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
— James K. A. Smith
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You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.
— Mark Twain
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In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject…
— Margaret Thatcher
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I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
— Ban Ki-moon
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As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let…
— Cecil O. Samuelson
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over…
— Ed Markey
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or…
— Warren Weaver
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All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
— Margaret Thatcher
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I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a…
— Mark Kurlansky
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Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to…
— Edgar Cayce
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Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and…
— Henry Hazlitt
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In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.
— Francis Chan
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Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral philosophy and political…
— Geoffrey Miller
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General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all…
— Paul Davies
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Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation…
— Paul Davies
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On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the…
— Andrzej Wajda
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Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own…
— Albert Einstein
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I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me…
— Vitali Klitschko
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she…
— Albert Howard
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My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant…
— John Ray
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