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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. ↗

— Charles Dance

#attempt #objective #you #yourself

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. ↗

— Peter Hain

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We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. ↗

— Chief Joseph

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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#better #exploit #known #make #much

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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