#attempt

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends. ↗

— Curt Weldon

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I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. ↗

— Kit Williams

#been #before #chariot #different #different people

I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#because #board #cook #doing #even

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. ↗

— Joe Wright

#i #know #learn #lots #presume