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Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals. -- Ted Malloch
Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative. -- William Nordhaus
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. -- Sergei Lavrov
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple. -- Eugene Mirman
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. -- Tracy Kidder
Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done. -- Immortal Technique
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance. -- Albert Ellis
Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible. -- Joel Meyerowitz
Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law. -- Sergei Lavrov
Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in! -- John Wolcot
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. -- Billy Collins
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. -- Robert D. Maurer
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion. -- David Hume
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. -- Murray Bookchin
Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a "?dream' is going crazy. -- R. D. Laing
All sins are attempts to fill voids. -- Simone Weil
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. -- Hilary Mantel
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. -- Andre Breton
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. -- John von Neumann
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. -- Maximilien Robespierre
I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. -- Todd Akin
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. -- Mika Brzezinski
Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. -- Zainab Salbi
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. -- Thomas a Kempis
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units. -- Paul Di Filippo
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. -- Barry Unsworth
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. -- Paul Davies
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. -- Paul Davies
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people. -- Miguel Syjuco
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. -- Aneurin Bevan
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. -- Richard K. Morgan
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats. -- Ken Goldberg
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. -- Sarah Palin
Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas. -- Arvind Gupta
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. -- Francis Crick
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. -- Peter Singer
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. -- George Sand
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts. -- Charles Caleb Colton
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. -- Vince Lombardi
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment. -- Mason Cooley
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts -- Swami Vivekananda
Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. -- Robin Morgan
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. -- Oscar Wilde
Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges. -- Jon Gordon
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ... -- Mary Baker Eddy
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. -- Ralph Davis
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. -- Josip Broz Tito
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. -- Allen Klein
A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. -- James Madison
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. -- George Bernard Shaw
Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry. -- Rob Bishop
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. -- Miguel de Unamuno
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. -- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. -- Sargent Shriver
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. -- Paul Karl Feyerabend
He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little. -- Samuel Johnson
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. -- Brooks Robinson
Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside -- Thomas Nagel
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts -- Brooks Robinson
If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. -- Fidel Castro
The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. -- Ernest Moniz
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. -- Terry Pratchett
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. -- Wyndham Lewis
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. -- Alberto Juantorena
In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. -- Francis Chan
Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. -- Thomas Merton
You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me -- Nicki Minaj
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. -- Swami Vivekananda
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. -- Malcolm Cowley
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. -- Eric S. Raymond
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. -- Jules Simon
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. -- John Owen
All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. -- Margaret Thatcher
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful -- Michael Moorcock
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force. -- Ayn Rand
The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. -- Helen Gardner
It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak. -- Jim Rohn
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. -- Lynn Abbey
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation. -- David Keirsey
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. -- Edith Stein
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. -- William H. Macy
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. -- Mohsin Hamid
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. -- Og Mandino
In his own country, [Osho] suddenly seemed safe from the international, political attempts to harass him. -- Milarepa
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. -- Bob Woodward
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. -- Mary Augusta Ward
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. -- Max Born
Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. -- Libba Bray
Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. -- Pablo Picasso
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. -- Naguib Mahfouz
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. -- Vernon Howard
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. -- Thomas Henry Huxley
Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. -- David Christian
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. -- Mark Twain
By all means, avoid words"?threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. -- Robert Graves
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. -- Johann Most
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. -- John Donne
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. -- Amy Hempel
The sacred-walk by child takes place with many endured attempts to stand on his or her feet. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We havent done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the 90s, but they failed. -- Til Schweiger
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. -- Samuel Rogers
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. -- John Stuart Mill
Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed. -- Sergei Lavrov

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