"It took me years of attempts and failed……" — Natasha Trethewey

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• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always… — Hannah Arendt
• My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;… — Annie Besant
• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning… — Aneurin Bevan
• Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over… — Andrea Bocelli
• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton
• Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent… — Symeon the New Theologian
• I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement,… — Jan C. Ting
• If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near… — Harry Vardon
• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying… — Florence Nightingale
• It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay
• Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data… — Nicholas Delbanco

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