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I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.
Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
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.
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Attempts to restrict encryption at the state or local levels would only serve to undermine security and economic competitiveness for the entire nation.
The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.
I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
There's no particular formula for 'Lost.' I mean, I think there were a few attempts to follow it and copy it, but it's a one-off, you know?
Many of my works fall into the category of "Zeitgeist novels." Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.
There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
The Chinese need to be held accountable for their continued attempts to steal IP and trade secrets through cyber-intrusions into commercial companies.
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.
Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.
The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.
Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.