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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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Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

Ashleigh Brilliant

Reality, Insane, Doe

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Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

George Carlin

Sex, Children, Parent

George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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But in the act of attempting to imitate I discovered that I had a voice of my own. Whether I liked it or not was another matter. I found that I was my best or that I pleased myself most or came closest to my goals when I was tapped into something autobiographical.

Guy Maddin

Voice, Goal, Matter

Source: thequietus.com

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Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

Sydney Pollack

Views, World, Conservative

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That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

Fred Alan Wolf

Ideas, Ifs

Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Ben Stein

Should

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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

B. F. Skinner

Disappointment, Errors, Might

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I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

Bill Cosby

Disappointment, Achievement, Way

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I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.

Josh Gad

Writing, Years, Presidential

Source: collider.com

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