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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.


David Herbert Donald


#anything #attempts #beliefs #countrymen #day

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?


Richard Donner


#attempts #book #came #comic #comic book

After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.


Lindsey Buckingham


#attempts #became #came #could #couple

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.


Ken Calvert


#any #attempts #ban #bill #both

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

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

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.


William Graham Sumner


#between #capital #communication #country #enormous

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.


Charles Jules Henry Nicole


#attempts #effect #i #large #less

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.


Maximilien Robespierre


#attempts #butchers #crime #innocence #might






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