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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.


Eugenio Montale


#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.


Quintilian


#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself

I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.


Franklin Raines


#beyond #bond #continues #could #done

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.


Satyajit Ray


#bear #both #bring #course #cultures

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.


Geoffrey Rush


#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.


Tom Petri


#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.


Richard Ernst


#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.


Herman Kahn


#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

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


John C. Ransom


#critic #demanded #much #poet #too

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.


Bob Parsons


#attempted #because #does #doing #first






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