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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! - Denis Diderot Quotes
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them. - Nelson A Miles Quotes
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. - Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. - Al Goldstein Quotes
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. - Alfred Adler Quotes
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. - Octavio Paz Quotes
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. - Simone De Beauvoir Quotes
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. - Balthus Quotes
We dont 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 Quotes
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. - Scott Nearing Quotes
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. - John Henry Newman Quotes
I, for example, used to take appliances apart when they broke in an attempt to fix them, which I rarely did successfully, being a kid. - Robert B Laughlin Quotes
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. - William Bligh Quotes
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 Quotes
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it. - Francis Crick Quotes
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon Quotes
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. - Andre Malraux Quotes
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think its in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. - M C Escher Quotes
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
Yeah. Im amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I dont play well at all. I wouldnt even attempt for a second to play in public. - Ben E King Quotes
My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. - Thom Gunn Quotes
What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. - Elbridge Gerry Quotes
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill Quotes
It was an attempt to stick the Congresss finger in King Husseins eye. - George P Shultz Quotes
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. - Henry Fielding Quotes
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what youve made is worth the misery of having to review it. - Federico Fellini Quotes
Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. - Elton Gallegly Quotes
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. - Charles Dance Quotes
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 Quotes
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. - John Ralston Saul Quotes
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