Attempt Quotes
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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens of thousands of other Jews ran for the door in an attempt to make a better life in America.
Milana Vayntrub
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Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
Thomas A. Edison
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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.
Ehud Olmert
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The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality … Its measure is the distance thought has travelled … toward that intelligible system … The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.
Brand Blanshard
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Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.
Lao Tzu
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You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
Rene Dubos
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I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
Richard Preston
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Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
Steve McConnell
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To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.
Annie Fellows
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Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.
Amanda Filipacchi
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A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
Francis Crick
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
Seneca the Younger
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Phaedrus
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Auguste Renoir