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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
Chocolate Soldier, by C. T. Studd -
The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
The Great Heresies (1938) H. III -
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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