#attempt

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#block #develop #development #effectively #ensured

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. ↗

— Keith Miller

#attempts #because #best #calm #christian

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#attempt #authority #constantly #make #remains

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#banner #before #communism #feelings #libertarian

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#achieve #attempts #impossible #only #she

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#approach #attempt #been #deal #down

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

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed