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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.”

War Nations Successful Rights Taught Lessons Terror Defense Aggression Avoiding Attempting Grim Taught Us

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“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.”

People Way Seems Social Levels Risk Morality Protect Profound Meaningful Code Helpful Grants Organize Evident Attempting Exclusion

Author:Terre Thaemlitz

“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.”

Way Firsts Mean Belief Wish Magic Attempting Terminology

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“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.”

Should Mind Different States Moving Common Meditation Return Okay State Of Mind Relaxed Misunderstanding Attempting Processing Different Directions

Author:Tim McCarthy

“If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.”

Ifs Business Impossible Failing Attempting Attempting The Impossible

Author:Robert Heller

“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.”

Impossible Conflict Waste Approach Resources Strategy Excellence Objectives Corporate Encounters Capability Attempting Attempting The Impossible

Author:Bruce Henderson

“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.”

Way Shows Failing Bounds Attempting

Author:Bill Johnson

“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.”

Feels Firsts Young Responsibility Accepting Roles Fans Position Huge Models Actresses Role Models Attempting

Author:Anne Hathaway

“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?"”

People Made Bigs Left Religious Mistake Talking Hell Wings Radio Debate Interpretation Leaving Me Attempting Right Wing Me Alone Theological Leave Me Alone Big Mistake

Author:Dan Savage

“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.”

Desire Speak Known Tired Come Up Available Accepted Defined Regimes Attempting Framework Paradigm

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“...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.”

Ends Order Dangerous Harm Customs Dogma Attempting Militant Old Dog

Author:Gore Vidal

“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.”

People Doe Principles Meaningful Attempting Find Me Free Society

Book:Meaning

Source: Meaning

“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."”

Advice Industry Directors Conception Attempting

Author:Rania Attieh

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

Ends Care Political Thirds Improving Attempting Rail End Of Life

Author:Katy Butler

“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.”

Country Matter States Film Sides Too Much Special Subjects Blame Notion Bounds Fake Experts Grain Attempting Subject Matter Sanctity

Author:Orson Welles

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

Humans Speak Goal Achieve Information Communicate Impression Attempting

Author:Francine Prose

“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.”

Ifs Made Reason Body Impossible Example Capacity Increase Size Your Body No Reason Pounds Reserves Maximum Attempting Imperatives Curls Optimal

Author:Mike Mentzer

“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.”

Helping Understanding Sound Principles Cooking Critical Boundaries Traditional Help Me Culinary Progressive Attempting Cuisine

Author:Grant Achatz

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

Successful Skills Developing Being Successful Attempting Leadership Skills

Author:Orrin Woodward

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Doe Reality Seems Insane Attempting

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.”

Politics Heaven Fear Doors Atheism Window Rage Attempting Bangs

Author:Douglas Horton

“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.”

Trying Children Shows Sex Parent Locals Innocence Worried Shops Neighborhood Show Me Equity Attempting Bans Residents Homeowners

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“I'm somewhat of a raptivist but I wasn't attempting to make a socio-political statement as much as I was attempting to voice for the voiceless whatever ideas that came to mind if I was in that situation.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Political Voice Situation Statements Attempting Voiceless

Author:Myka 9

“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.”

Kind Mean Persons Problem Reality Found Surface Inner Peace Staying Attempting Finding Peace Peace Within Delving Peace With Others Facing Life

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation .... but No majority has a right to prevent a minority from peacefully attempting to become the majority.”

States Order Majority Block Minorities Attempting Organisation Conducting

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.”

Giving Reality Order Process Emotion Identity Fit Destruction Oneself Explanation Motive Faculty Justification Providing Attempting Distortion Cognitive Cover Ups

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.”

Men Mean Reason Force Animal He Man Method Attempting

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.”

Men World Ideas Feelings Purpose Sound Psychology Strange Fit Connections Explanation Receiving Fabric Justified Attempting Psycho Analytics

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.”

Thinking Knows Way Play Whole Action Games Support Achieve Music Is Exciting Intense Consideration Intensity Orchestra Attempting Think Of You Tempo Uncommon

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.”

Speak Attempting Proclamation

Author:William Henry Willimon

“As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.”

Feels Trying Past Existence Baby Basketball Recalls Palms Attempting

Book:Less Than One: Selected Essays

Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays

“The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.”

People Way Circumstances Oneself Miserable Attempting

Author:Carolyn Hax

“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.”

Might Can Do Situation Errors Disappointment Quitting Genuine Being The Best Attempting Oversight

Author:B. F. Skinner

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

Way Please Achievement Disappointment Clue Attempting

Author:Bill Cosby

“What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.”

Giving Trying Stories Artist Expression Internals Attempting

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as the one actor attempting to give a real performance in this mess.”

Giving Real Actors Lost Stars Fine Performances Mess Galaxy Attempting Seeming Guinness Obi Wan Kenobi

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress”

“In attempting to understand 9/11, the first question asked by the world's elites - as exemplified by leading media and academics - was, 'What did America do to provoke such hatred?' Ten years later, the same people are still asking the same question. And it is as morally repulsive now as it was then. It was always on par with 'What did the Jews do to antagonize the Germans? Or 'What did blacks do to enrage lynch mobs?'”

People World Years Firsts Stills America Media Ten Hatred Asking Jew Elites Provoking Attempting Questions Asked

Author:Dennis Prager

“Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.”

Trying Problem Lying Difficult Lines Fiction Knowing Draws Science Fiction Pornography Attempting Undertakings

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.”

Stills Dies Decision Company Danger Resources Standing Valuable Commit Attempting Momentum Standing Still

Author:Andy Grove

“In the mountains, worldly attachments are left behind, and in the absence of material distractions, we are opened up to spiritual thought. We should be attempting to carry the spiritual experience of the mountains with us everywhere.”

Should Spiritual Left Behinds Materials Mountain Absence Attachment Distraction Worldly Left Behind Attempting Spiritual Experience

Author:Jamling Tenzing Norgay

“We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.”

Ifs Artist Felt Mass Producers Missionary Attempting Zeal Blues Music Aggravating Missionary Zeal

Author:Alan Price

“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.”

Knows World Writing Years Three Term Comedy This World Mets Speech Hollywood Green Presidential Three Years Attempting

Author:Josh Gad

“One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.”

“The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.”

World Firsts Character Effort Novel Elements Attempting Uncontrollable Quixotic

Author:John Irving

“The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.”

Done Feelings Jobs Simple Secret Commitment Bigger Perseverance Sensations Attempting Inner Feelings

Author:Nicholas Lore

“I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.”

Moving Order Pleasure Practice Theory Feminist Discussion Complexity Rhetoric Pornography Attempting Amplify Feminist Theory

Author:Barbara Degenevieve

“I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Democracy Good Things Very Good Enormous Permanent Attempting

Author:William Gibson

“I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes... they are idea men.”

Thinking Men Ideas Soul Use Feelings Moving Process Deals Instinct Thrive Attempting Thought Process Music Soul Inner Feelings

Author:Howe Gelb

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