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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

  Dean Acheson

  Government, Europe, Special

  1962 Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec. According to the New York Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

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• I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do."

  Judd Apatow

  Smart, Chicago, Remember

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Writing, Chocolate, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to be in a way a one-man wrecking crew in the area of deportment and how one proceeds politically on the stump. Marco Rubio is - is attempting, as you know, to a - to give [Donald] Trump a fight in Trump's own style. I'm not sure how that works, but - but certainly the indices are good.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Men, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why, and when we see repetition happening it's worth trying to understand it before attempting to shut it down.

  Laura Mullen

  Letting Go, Moving, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.

  Kelly Link

  Mistake, Thinking, Interesting

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• We just totally have abandoned reality here, and the Democrats have created a new reality that is not real whatsoever that people have bought into and accepted, to the point now where the upholding of current law is what's considered lawless and partisan and political, and [Barak] Obama attempting to skirt the law and ignore the law is what people think is the law!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Thinking, Law

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Jun 23, 2016

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• The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islam, Trying, Ataturk

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease.

  Mpho Koaho

  Golf, Oxygen, Tree

  "Actor Mpho Koaho: The vulnerable nature of acting, investing in youth programs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves.

  Frazey Ford

  Powerful, Creativity, Force

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• I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

  El-P

  Way, Embarrassed, Human Experience

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.

  John Lewis

  People, Vote, Register

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.

  April Smith

  Decision, Waiting, Influence

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• The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

  Gail Carriger

  World, Patterns, Causes

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• So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fire, Mouths, Matter

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• It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.  The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.  Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Fun, Choices

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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 is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

  Josiah Royce

  Real, Philosophical, Civilization

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.311, Paulist Press

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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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• When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

  Henry Fielding

  Jealousy, Passion, Female

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1250, Delphi Classics

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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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• I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Uncles

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.554, Pan Macmillan

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• Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

  Hank Green

  Media, People, Legacy

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• It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Loss, Judging, Leaving

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