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«It occurs to her that he is attempting to let her win, an act she considers highly unnecessary since she is the stronger player. She does not appreciate his condescension. But two can play at this game, and she knows the female is infinitely more adept.»
«It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world»
Author: William Cobbett | About: Achievement, Misery, World | Keywords: attempting, leap
«Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.»
«Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies , and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.»
«I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.»
«Not all those who are attempting to conduct successful businesses are profiteers»
Author: Calvin Coolidge (President) | About: Business | Keywords: attempting
«In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess.»
«I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .»
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
«I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it»

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