#tempt

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. ↗

— John Thorn

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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. ↗

— Charles Keating

#being #ever #grand #here #i

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along. ↗

— David Keene

#any #attempt #been #beginning #both

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#been #career #course #exposed #great

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#enjoyment #like #looks #smile #sneer

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#evils #look #money #rather #tempts

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#analyze #answers #attempts #bad #behave

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ↗

— H. G. Wells

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