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To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

Religious, Language, Speak

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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edgar Allan Poe

Oil And Water, Mad, Poetry

Edgar Allan Poe (1876). “Poems and Essays of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Memoir”, p.162

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For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.

Louis J. Halle

Country, Memorial, Doe

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Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.

Carl Hiaasen

Inspiration, Different, Facts

"Writers on Writing, Carl Hiaasen: Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist" by Carl Hiaasen, archive.nytimes.com. April 24, 2000.

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Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.

Bill Parcells

Team, Philosophy, Knowing

Source: sports.yahoo.com

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My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Giving, Sake

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The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

Dane Cook

Art, Knowing, Keys

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But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Successful, Rights

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.276, Best Books on

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It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant people the freedom to openly organize without legal risks - rather than attempting to legally regulate everything, which will always enact social exclusions at some level.

Terre Thaemlitz

Meaningful, People, Profound

"How Japan's New Nightclub Laws Threaten to Decimate Their Club Culture". Interview with Jonny Coleman, pitchfork.com. September 10, 2015.

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I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

Mean, Magic, Wish

Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for the mind to move into many different directions, while at the same time attempting to return to a centered, relaxed state of mind.

Tim McCarthy

Moving, Meditation, Mind

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Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Bruce Henderson

Excellence, Waste, Encounters

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Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

Bill Johnson

Way, Failing, Shows

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I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

Anne Hathaway

Responsibility, Role Models, Fans

"Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

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There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

Dan Savage

Religious, Mistake, Talking

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

Jean Baudrillard

Tired, Desire, Speak

Source: outwardfromnothingness.com

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...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

Gore Vidal

Order, Dogma, Ends

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A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Michael Polanyi

Meaningful, People, Principles

Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Rania Attieh

Advice, Directors, Conception

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail.

Katy Butler

Political, Care, End Of Life

Source: www.motherjones.com

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In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

Orson Welles

Country, Fake, Special

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When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

Francine Prose

Goal, Information, Speak

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To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your body's reserves.

Mike Mentzer

Curls, Example, Body

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It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea.

Grant Achatz

Understanding, Cooking, Sound

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The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Orrin Woodward

Successful, Skills, Developing

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