Attempts Quotes
526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors
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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
— Aeschines
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No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,…
— Joseph Campbell
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Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act.
— Maria Montessori
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Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying…
— Jacque Fresco
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I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us;…
— Errol Morris
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Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments,…
— Bruce Mau
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True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison - it is a prison. It can not exist unless it…
— Viktor Suvorov
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I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to…
— Kit Williams
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Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God…
— John Wolcot
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For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission…
— Mary Bono
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Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also…
— Richard Foreman
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Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
— Pope Innocent III
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The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has…
— Justin Sane
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After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that…
— Lindsey Buckingham
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Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
— Herman Kahn
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When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence…
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation
— Alija Izetbegovic
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If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at…
— Herman E. Daly
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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
— Simon Newcomb
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It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
— Hannes Alfven
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I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I…
— Ricky Williams
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Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
— Karl Popper
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Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make…
— Philip E. Agre
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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature,…
— David Hume
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