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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness. Gary Zukav

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. Gregory Bateson

Learning Generation Culture People Values Parents Geared Attempt Fails Because Pass Always Cultural Replicate Human Next Transmission Next Generation Skills

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Henry James

Life Only Attempt Does Existence Represent Reason Novel

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. James Agee

Confusion Own Would Examine My Own Consume Attempt Volumes Mere

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved. James Gray

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. John Henry Newman

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In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test. John Lewis

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. Michael Korda

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. Morrissey

Music Time You Wise People Judge Met Nice Find Emotion Invested Attempt Make Because Very Person Persona Same So Many People Same Time Loved Cannot Public Stand Many Even Whose

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz

Love Surrender Love Is Penetrating Mutual Only Attempt Another Being Succeed

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. Philippe Petit

Challenge Focus Invent Attempt Observe Perform Transform

It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school. Robert Kennedy

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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren

Poem Hazardous Attempt Part Autobiography Deepest

Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them. Roy Blunt

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If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. Ryan Holiday

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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Samuel Johnson

Grief Only Divert Attempt Fresh Any Where Irritates

Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Simone de Beauvoir

Art Evil Attempt Integrate

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. Tadao Ando

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