#attempt

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#attempted #centre #character #fascism #fight

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. ↗

— William Vickrey

#attempting #balance #balancing #budget #mischief

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over. ↗

— Jaime Herrera Buetler

#care #completely #definitely #health #health care

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#art #attempt #failures #just #numerous

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. ↗

— John Denham

#genius #his #less #nor #ought

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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