#tempts

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ↗

— John von Neumann

#anyone #attempts #course #generate #living

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. ↗

— Justin Sane

#attempts #because #completely #consumer #culture

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bound #come #departments #form #nixon

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#complicated #fabric #failures #family-tree #hurts

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#attempts #because #cannot #does #free

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bedrock #blinded #could #discourage #faith

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. ↗

— Aeschines

#be strong #ceased #cherish #lawless #laws

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bear #bitter #fortune #future #good