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Letter "A" » attempt
«Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.»
«Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check.»
«Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.»
«There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
attempt, based, cockroach, Cockroaches, combine, despicable, In The Dark, prejudice, religious belief, religious beliefs, secret societies, secret society, thriven, throve
«Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Religion,
Trying
| Keywords:
attempt, For every, grounds, intolerance, legislation, persecution, persecutions, religious intolerance, religious persecution
«The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while»
«Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of exis»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
association, Association of, attempt, boldly, bring together, century, endeavour, perceptible, phenomena, possible worlds, posterior, reconstruction, systematic, The Association, thorough
«Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, attempt, depends, progress, reasonable, therefore, unreasonable
«Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attempt, community, dignity, elevate, organize, organizes, physical, physical force, public opinion
«Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt»
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