#tempt

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#contempt #forgive #forgotten #injury #insult

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#attempt #economy #efforts #employing #enormous

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. ↗

— Otis Williams

#anyone #anything #asked #bill #coats

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. ↗

— Paul Berg

#being #cells #cloned #embryonic #embryonic stem cells

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#enriching #feel #individual #never #observe

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beauty #form #friendship #inspired #love

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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