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What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
Inspirational
Great
You
Would
Could
Attempt
Knew
Fail
Great Thing
Thing
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
History
You
Political
Party
Farm
Programs
Our
Security
Would
Abolish
Laws
Attempt
Insurance
Hear
Political History
Labor
Political Party
Unemployment
Any
Again
Social
Should
Social Security
Eliminate
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Good
Win
Lose
Our
Fearing
Attempt
Make
Traitors
Oft
Might
Us
Doubts
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
Abraham Lincoln
Day
Man
Fruit
Wait
Tree
Ripe
Impatient
Both
Attempt
He
Spoil
Force
Him
His
Falls
May
Patiently
After
Process
Length
Lap
Watches
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
Success
Impossible
Must
Attain
Attempt
Absurd
Order
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Aneurin Bevan
Heart
Hatred
Party
Tory
Seduction
Attempt
Concerned
Am
Eradicate
Vermin
Than
Burning
Social
Far
Ethical
Lower
Deep
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill
Good
Freedom
Long
Own
Others
Our
Way
Only
Pursuing
Attempt
Name
Obtain
Efforts
Which
Deprive
Deserves
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
William Butler Yeats
You
Every
Once
Way
Intolerance
Kind
Religious
Attempt
Open
Persecution
Legislation
Grounds
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
Men
Mediocrity
Enterprises
Small
Attempt
Always
Reducing
End
Them
Level
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Vernon Howard
Nature
Spiritual
People
Political
Desperate
Power
Other
Telling
Distraction
Find
Seek
Attempt
Never
Fail
Over
Self-Discovery
Emptiness
Social
Themselves
Certain
Fill
Inner
Number
'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
Gene Roddenberry
Wisdom
Day
Humanity
Maturity
Will
Differences
Trek
Say
Delight
Take
Attempt
Reach
Ideas
Begins
Just
Special
Tolerate
Star
Star Trek
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
Fear
Greedy
Others
Fearful
Only
Attempt
Simply
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens
Faith
Health
Religion
History
Healing
Care
First
Sense
Universe
Our
Philosophy
Cosmology
Attempt
Part
Also
Health Care
Making
Cultural
Intellectual
Texts
Human
Where
Literature
Believing
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
Me
Impossible
Achieve
Will
Think
Those
Only
Attempt
Absurd
Check
Go
Upstairs
Who
Basement
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Phaedrus
Destruction
Others
Those
Plot
Attempt
Perish
Often
Who
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
William Tecumseh Sherman
War
Result
Humiliation
Will
Every
Easy
Attempt
Disaster
Safe
Make
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Truth
World
Made
Own
Believe
Harmless
Our
Though
Mad
Attempt
Had
Come
Terrible
Underlying
Whole
Enigma
Interpret
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
Adam Grant
People
Desperate
Employees
Become
Gone
White
Help Others
Others
Complex
Givers
Attempt
Develop
Instead
Support
Knight
Over
Well-Intentioned
Hovering
Causing
Provide
End
Up
Managers
Helicopter
Help
Many
Workplace
Awry
Harm
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
Fran Lebowitz
Death
Peace
Behavior
Otherwise
Unacceptable
Nervousness
Only
Attempt
Prove
Any
Thing
Inner
Inner Peace
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells
Socialism
Achieve
Word
Experiment
Extraordinarily
Else
Collapse
Parallel
Russian
Attempt
New
Policies
Call
New Deal
Deal
Shirk
America
American
Social
Plainly
Working
Avert
Successive
Plans
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Lies
Attempt
Reach
Reaching
Glory
Goal
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
Moral Authority
Moral
Seeking
Attempt
Never
Without
Effort
Authority
Any
Hold
To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Life
Art
You
Yourself
Revenge
Result
Achieve
Problems
Totalitarianism
Hell
Society
Way
Relief
Write
Writer
Attempt
Catastrophe
Bound
Saints
Persecution
Any
Repression
Want
Achieves
Which
Social
Utopia
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson
Collapse
Enter
Could
Attempt
Mortals
Feel
Force
His
Realm
Even
Ludicrous
Muscle
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
Richard Dawkins
Change
Creativity
Internet
Random
Meme
Memes
Darwinian
Deliberately
Selection
Attempt
Instead
Idea
Genes
Hijacking
Altered
Spreading
Version
Accuracy
Human
Form
Original
Original Idea
Copying
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
Walter Cronkite
News
Failure
Fight
Desperate
Gone
Programmes
Our
Television
System
Entertain
Ratings
Attempt
Democratic
Because
Inform
Much
Evening
Evening News
Challenged
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