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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. Harry Houdini

Good Teeth Unless Bite Attempt He Performer Red-Hot Off Iron Should Set

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Henry Fielding

Love Natural Mark Correct Those Folly Attempt Perhaps Surer Than

In the long run, it's impossible to make progress without sometimes having setbacks, although people who get lucky on their first attempt sometimes forget this. Henry Spencer

People Progress Sometimes Impossible Long First Run Having Long Run Attempt Make Although Without Forget Get Who Lucky Setbacks

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion. Herta Muller

Time Words Become Before Mouth Difficult Our Ourselves Objects More Through Take Attempt Allowed Freer Arouse Gestures Suspicion Banned Then Even Assert Interpret

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny. Hill Harper

Work Dreams People Inspire Live Destiny Out Through Attempt Empower Encourage Lot Uplift Manifest Interesting Really Your Foundation

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? Humphry Davy

Knowledge Property Cause Matter Energy Relation State Our Evident Would Would-Be Attempt Remote Identical Chemical However Affinity Essential May Electrical Useless Sufficiently Present Speculate

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Iris Chang

Life Daily You Yourself Matter Think Out Oneself Write Attempt May Being Being Honest Whirlwind Requires Novel Daily Life Honest Pull

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? Italo Calvino

Art Add Earth Solemn Would Attempt Most Pile Nonsense Inexpressible Pinpoint Modern Modern Art Sensations Appeared Ever Vague

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself. Jack Straw

Day Mother Father Extraordinary Teeth Out Unpleasant See Rather Uncles Attempt He Put Knock House Half-Hearted Himself Because Making Been His Up Wall Children Happened Upstairs Against Grandmother Next Found Gas Two

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial. Jacob Rees-Mogg

News Leader Party Own Other Trial Would Take Rivalry Attempt Allowed Divisions She Were Nor Off Michael Labour Labour Party Personal Heat Thatcher Any Buried Show Internal Deep Now Whose Hardly Margaret Margaret Thatcher

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. James Buchan

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. James Cameron

Love Technology Respect Father Build Engineering Attempt Genetic Always Get Trying Maybe Just Interest Fascinated Things

'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try. James D. Watson

Life Science Try Thought Girl Before Personal Life More Attempt Had No-One Genes Mix Than Personal Done Double Even

'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic. James Gray

Definitive Magic Attempt Without Answers Integral Provide Ambiguity Questions Any Enduring Apocalypse Film Now Profound Poses

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die. James Gray

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. James Laughlin

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My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. James Mercer

Classic Attempt Songwriting Stuff Sort Doing Really

I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be sure to attempt an inaccurate, sensationalised biography, possibly including me, possibly writing me out of the script. Jane Hawking

Future Me Writing Become Out Significant Possibly Would Would-Be Some Someone Date Attempt Had Sure Felt Renown Scientist Script Inaccurate Figure International Including Biography

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. Jenny Shipley

Change Peace Women Too Medium Secure Secure Peace Has-Been Must Structures Attempt Term Stewardship Arrangements Been Male Dominated Often Short Informal Which While Decision-Making Used Mechanisms Expressed Desire

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same. Jerry B. Jenkins

God Religion Man Fear Else Claim Abide Attempt He Feels Reach Because Same Done Anyone Cannot Succeeded

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed. Jesse Jackson

Will Obama Attempt Support Any Succeed

So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life. Jhumpa Lahiri

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