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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.


James Fenton


#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.


Steve Forbes


#day #demonize #end #end of the day #failed

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.


John M. Ford


#author #certainly #decide #decipher #else

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.


Peter Gabriel


#attempts #bit #early #hasn #i

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.


Eric Gill


#analytical #attempts #bread #descriptive #does

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.


Meir Kahane


#ally #alone #attempts #came #choice

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.


Herman Kahn


#annihilation #any #attempts #believe #current

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.


Walter Kohn


#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

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

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.


Bob Woodward


#criminal #disclosures #fact #held #his






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