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• You’re only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world.

  Steve Lopez

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• I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

  Clint Howard

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• Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airplane over Detroit, an attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square… I think that gives us a sense of the breadth of the challenges that we face, and the kinds of things that our enemy is trying to do.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

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• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  Edmund Hillary

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• I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

  Peter Storey

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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

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• 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 Henry Huxley

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  What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Unknown

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

  Robin Morgan

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• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

  Brian Ferneyhough

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  Make voyages! Attempt them! There’s nothing else.

  Tennessee Williams

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• To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

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• Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don’t always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.

  Bill Dixon

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• 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

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• Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

  Bill Blass

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• Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

  Baltasar Gracián

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• I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don’t have a little list of topics to write about.

  Tracy Chapman

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• My old teacher’s definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

  Thom Gunn

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

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