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The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.
- Colum McCann
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No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
- Charles Albert Gobat
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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
- Jack Schwartz
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
- John Denham
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Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.
- Tedros Adhanom
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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
- Charles Keating
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There has been an attempt to pull in a more cable mentality to the big networks - from NBC hiring Scott Sassa from TNT, to FOX hiring Herzog from Comedy Central.
- Sam Seder
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I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.
- Stephanie Grisham
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I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.
- Charles Grodin
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I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
- Joe Wright
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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
- Walter Pater
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All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
- Edward Rutherfurd
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PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
- Diplo
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People have written about 'Sleep' as if it were some kind of record attempt, but I could just put repeat marks at the end, and it would be 16 hours. It's not about that.
- Max Richter
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Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.
- Rob Pike
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
- Al Goldstein
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
- Joseph Heller
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Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
- Robert Shapiro
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'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.
- Dave Sim
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War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
- Scott Nearing
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It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.
- Anthony Fauci
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I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
- Anne Graham Lotz
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It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
- George P. Shultz
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We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
- James Laughlin
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
- George Borrow
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
- Thomas Hood
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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
- Edward Witten
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The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
- Benjamin Tucker
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Without U.S. input, the countries of South America joined forces in 2008 to shut down a coup attempt in Bolivia and prevented a war between Ecuador and Colombia.
- Greg Grandin
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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
- Joyce Appleby
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
- Derek Walcott
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In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
- Alexander Cockburn
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We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
- Stan Laurel
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
- Vaclav Havel
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It is always thrilling to attempt something new and it feels great when your efforts are awarded positively.
- Ammy Virk
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I have made an honest attempt in 'Drohi.' Thanks to the support from the producer Mano Akkineni and the lessons I learnt from Mani sir, the film has come out well.
- Sudha Kongara
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I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be sure to attempt an inaccurate, sensationalised biography, possibly including me, possibly writing me out of the script.
- Jane Hawking
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I'm increasingly convinced that there is an ongoing attempt of ethnic replacement of one people with another people. This is not emergency migration but organised migration that aims at replacing the Italian people with other people, Italian workers with other workers.
- Matteo Salvini
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
- Maureen Dowd
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When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
- Maude Adams
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For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
- Kim Campbell
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
- Kevin Kelly
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In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.
- Rachel Sklar
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I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
- Whitney Wolfe Herd
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There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.
- Stephen Hopkins
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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
- Edward Hopper
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I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
- Philippe Petit
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I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.
- Maryanne Trump Barry
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
- Samuel Johnson
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
- Abraham Lincoln
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
- William Shakespeare
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.
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You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
- Robert Cormier
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Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
- Bill Blass
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
- Phaedrus
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
- Robert Penn Warren
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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
- Arianna Huffington
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In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out.
- Ralph Abernathy
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
- Martin Scorsese
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
- Woodrow Wilson
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
- Andre Malraux
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We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
- Henry James
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
- William Butler Yeats
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The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.
- Robert H. Schuller
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What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis
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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
- Mike Tyson
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
- Stephen Sondheim
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