#tempts

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#culture #exclusive #live

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. ↗

— Todd Akin

#activity #attempts #civil #civil right #government

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

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

#am #attempts #formed #fortune #greater

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#bucket #climb #crab #crabs #cure

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#attempts #became #by the time #college #discrimination

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. ↗

— Ed Markey

#bush #congress #dramatically #economy #five

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. ↗

— Keith Miller

#attempts #because #best #calm #christian