#attempts

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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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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For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. ↗

— Mary Bono

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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#attempts #check #eternally #expression #loathe

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #dreams

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#arab #armies #attempts #bring #conquer

All sins are attempts to fill voids. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fill #sins

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

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