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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Woodrow Wilson
Man
Suicide
Attempt
Never
Committing
Who
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Achieve
Power
Prestige
Attempt
Merit
Without
An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
Letitia Baldrige
Best
Cooking
Dinner
Wine
Table
Someone
Excellent
Simplest
Attempt
Candles
Romantic
Turn
Event
Flowers
When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Education
War
Simple
Confederate
Else
Civil
See
Civil War
Attempt
Empire
Sort
Understand
How
Flag
Any
Anybody
Anything
Anything Else
Really
Raise
Slavery
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.
Ben Shapiro
Life
Marriage
Conservative
Strong
Job
Sanctity
Tree
Despises
Job Growth
Record
Strong Support
Purple
Could
Stellar
Attempt
Support
Permanently
Traditional
Traditional Marriage
Texas
Left
America
Blue
Succeed
Turn
Root
Should
Growth
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Work
Impossible
Mine
Attempt
Always
Been
Motto
Improve
Order
Your
Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
Christen Press
Success
Best
Losing
Important
Matters
Winning
Self
Attempt
Getting
Your
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
Derek Walcott
Try
Worthwhile
Something
Attempt
Any
Serious
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.
Edmund Hillary
Great
Dangerous
Challenge
Great Deal
Mountains
Difficult
Think
Too
Analyze
Thoroughly
Out
Some
Attempt
Never
Mainly
Perhaps
Overcoming
Because
Deal
Climb
Very
Get
May
Which
Little
Them
Satisfaction
Things
Enjoyment
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
Indira Gandhi
Politician
Enough
Daring
India
Eaten
Attempt
Masses
Exists
Cows
Explain
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
Judy Collins
Time
Myself
People
Made
Group
Suicide
One Time
Tried
Attempt
Had
Sort
Friends
Times
Succeeded
Who
Many
Connection
Lives
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca
People
Worth
Try
Too Much
Salt
Too
Those
Would
Rather
Supervisor
Attempt
Deal
His
Than
Any
Little
Much
Who
We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.
Martin McGuinness
Abortion
Down
Consistent
Favour
Attempt
Had
Fein
Years
Sinn
Sinn Fein
Very
North
Any
Act
Bring
Resisted
British
Position
I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.
Maryanne Trump Barry
Better
Attempt
Knew
Than
Child
Donald
Even
Compete
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid
Through
Attempt
Go
Either
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry
Nature
Resume
Welfare
Will
Responsibility
Back
Eat
Directly
Previous
Attempt
Fairly
Concerns
Led
Need
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
Alanis Morissette
Women
Men
Face
Men And Women
Indeed
Embrace
Rather
Both
Both Men And Women
Shame
Attempt
Feminine
Eradicate
Than
Brave
Patriarchy
Act
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Try
Universe
Static
Security
Attempt
Feel
Safe
Make
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Me
Reality
Before
Films
Kind
Poem
Only
Poetry
Attempt
Make
Return
Accept
Least
Camera
Create
Each
Film
Interpretations
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
Work
Impossible
Attempt
Improve
Order
Your
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
Bibi Bourelly
Back
Back Up
Dare
Attempt
Lifts
True
Failed
Leads
Also
Up
Optimism
After
Again
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
Brene Brown
Time
You
Trust
Wax
Posting
Slowly
About
Attempt
Divorce
Cheat
Vulnerability
Built
Real
Nor
Up
Bikini
Your
Connection
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
Brian Weiss
Reality
Power
Our
Minds
Must
Embrace
Miracle
Rational
Mystical
Attempt
Encounters
Forget
Often
Experiences
Which
Event
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
Great
Change
Vision
Every
Great Change
Possibilities
Has-Been
Daring
Lofty
Attempt
New
Make
Been
Conditions
Existing
Labeled
New Possibilities
Human
Race
Human Race
Utopian
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Etty Hillesum
Life
Greed
Mental
Indigestion
Attempt
Absorb
Massive
Well
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Information
Figures
Amount
Consequent
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.
Ezra Taft Benson
Life
Faith
Will
Minds
Those
Destroy
Out
Vanity
Attempt
Always
Intellectual
Very
Little
Little Minds
Who
Display
Foundations
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