#tempt

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. ↗

— Robin Morgan

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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#approach #attempt #been #deal #down

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

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Success tempts many to their ruin. ↗

— Phaedrus

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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

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Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#against #aircraft #attempts #away #capabilities

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself