#attempt

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#among #attempted #birds #case #complete

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#analyze #answers #attempts #bad #behave

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#critic #demanded #much #poet #too

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#attempted #begun #close #done #each

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#done #earned #nights #repose #something

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

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People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#aware #brand #build #gets #i

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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