178 Quotes About Attempting


  • Author Tom Newton
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    We wish the governor would have vetoed it, but it's not like we're surprised. He and his family were victims of the behaviour that it was attempting to end.

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  • Author George Orwell
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    This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history,

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  • Author Michael Osterholm
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    What we are really attempting to do here is make sure you have antibody defense after you stop the antibiotics, ... Should one of those dormant spores come around, we can then take care of it.

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  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
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    Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

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  • Author Tom O'Brien
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    I think that comes about from never attempting to fail. There's times he'd go out in practice, and I'd say, If you don't throw five interceptions today, you didn't have a good practice.' You have to learn as a quarterback what you can and can't throw.

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  • Author Alex Pareene
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    In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

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  • Author Brandon Phillips
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    There was pretty good odds that we were definitely disturbing someone that was attempting to convalesce, or a surgeon who is attempting to do some complicated microscopic vascular procedure.

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