"Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit." — David Starr Jordan
"Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit."
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18 Quotes by David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan has 18 quotes on this site.
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All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no…
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Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I…
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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
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Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
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The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without…
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"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I…
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There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his…
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is…
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The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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More Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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