#attempt

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. ↗

— Titus Livius

#enterprises #great #hold #man #nothing

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. ↗

— Scott Nearing

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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

#cannot #change #distort #facts #find

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#between #comparison #dangerous #draw #false

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#attempt #believing #change #change the world #choose

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#against #aircraft #attempts #away #capabilities

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

#child #first #hears #her #imitate

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

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