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«He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.»
Author: Joseph Heller | Keywords: attempt, decided, Die in
«In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Impossibility | Keywords: absurd, attempt
«Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: attempt, go through, through with
«In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.»
Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: attempt, deny, inevitably, inextricably, moves, obliged, obliges, obliging, related
«It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: attempt, reasoned, useless
«I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison (Inventor) | Keywords: attempt, discarded, discarding, discards, discouraged, step forward
«An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: attempt, Between the Lines, circle, circling, curl, curled up, curling, curls, curl up, dimension, fourth, fourth dimension, in a circle, line, line up, On Line, point, punch, punched, punches, punching, punch in, punch line, sphere, stretch, The Twist, twist, twisting, twists, visualized, visualizes, visualizing
«I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: arduous, attempt
«Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art, Painting | Keywords: attempt, birds, painting, song, Song of the, The Birds, The Song of
«In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: animal, animal rights, attempt, bull, determined, dispute, disputing, fevered, fiery, get by, in dispute, in fact, no-good, not for, principle, zealot, zealots
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