#tempt

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#author #been #chinese #countries #description

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#control #essence #government

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#country #good #temptations

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#attempt #brought #bureaucrats #classification #classified

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#enough #fight #know #some #strong

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. ↗

— Kanye West

#attempt #cause #cop-out #everybody #i

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#beauty #conciousness #contempt #create #creative

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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