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A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
Lysander Spooner
Friendship
Enemy
Cause
Other
Criminal
Solely
Respects
Open
Attempted
He
Arnold
Because
Practices
However
American
Traitor
While
Who
Professing
Injure
Injury
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Morning
Earned
Some
Something
Sees
Attempted
Close
Begun
Task
Repose
Done
Each
Evening
Each Morning
Night
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
P. T. Barnum
People
World
Money
Worth
General
Given
Generally
Attempted
Nor
Duped
Twice
Thing
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
Rosa Parks
Time
Healing
Oppression
Jim
Jim Crow
Ourselves
Wounds
Horrible
Indifference
Laws
Restriction
Crow
Attempted
Soothe
Healing Process
Accepting
False
Up
Begins
Process
Pattern
Cut
Deeply
Set
I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
Eckhart Tolle
God
Own
Believe
Our
Way
Oneness
Attempted
He
Also
How
His
Precursor
Realize
Realized
Us
Show
Jesus
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison
Heart
CIA
People
Conspiracy
Face
Employees
President
Rug
Admit
Could
Beating
Attempted
Had
Up
American
Stopped
Former
Agency
American People
Sweep
Assassinate
Moment
Whole
Kennedy
It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
Tom Petri
People
Cover-Up
Trouble
Scandal
Attempted
Most
Gets
Original
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Sometimes
Mind
Will
Young
Down
Too
Channel
Brood
Diverted
Attempted
Attempts
He
True
Over
His
May
Young Man
Succeed
Keep
Injury
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Overcome
Will
First
Nothing
Possible
Must
Objections
Attempted
Ever
Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
Bob Parsons
Work
Time
You
First
Nothing
Way
Seem
Attempted
Almost
Almost Nothing
Because
First Time
Does
Doing
Just
Just Because
Mean
Might
Working
Means
Works
Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
Time
Vote
Women
Mother
Father
Black
Men
Men And Women
Own
My Own
Uncles
Could
Attempted
Allowed
Because
Pass
Test
Were
Aunts
Literacy
Register
Grandfather
Each
Each Time
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander Spooner
King
Superior
Argument
Jews
Followers
Rather
Attempted
He
Support
Supposition
His
Than
Being
Desertion
Jesus
In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.
Robert Zubrin
Science
People
School
Impossible
Moon
College
Country
Every
Way
High
High School
Inspired
Attempted
Attempting
Reaching
Metaphor
Did
Graduates
Just
Meant
Level
Millions
Number
Millions Of People
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles
Generally
Attempted
Because
Done
Little
Reason
Why
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.
Alice Walker
Freedom
Vote
Parents
Aid
Joined
Thrown
Attempted
Had
Come
Like
Mississippi
Democratic
Known
Because
Exercise
Always
Been
Off
Movement
Land
Who
Right
Early
Early 20s
When people look at 'Aadai's posters and say that I've attempted something bold, it actually reflects me being secure about myself.
Amala Paul
Myself
Me
People
Say
Secure
Posters
About
Something
Attempted
Look
Reflects
Being
Bold
Actually
If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
Ambrose Burnside
War
Government
Day
You
Wise
Fight
Will
Experiment
Desolation
Beneficent
Ruin
Triumph
Only
Purpose
Attempted
Cruel
Fail
Also
She
South
Repent
Overthrow
Bloody
Persist
North
Your
Secession
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
Anohni
Today
War
Creative
Women
Wealth
Men
Power
Engineering
Extraction
Appropriate
Mineral
Enslaved
Ruthless
Attempted
Mass
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Female
Surveillance
Gods
Forms
Themselves
Assault
Creators
Millennia
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
August Wilson
Best
Book
Field
Think
Our
Mine
Those
Characters
Blacks
Give
Sacred
Attempted
Since
Attitudes
Ideas
Call
Been
Cultural
Blues
Literature
Them
Created
Here
Many good journalists have attempted to confront Trump about his many lies and failures, and have failed.
Bob Beckel
Good
Lies
About
Attempted
Failed
Journalists
Failures
His
Trump
Confront
Many
'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
Chris Squire
Music
Song
First
Edge
Side
Having
Attempted
Taking
Piece
Up
Close
Where
Whole
Vinyl
Album
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
Colin Trevorrow
People
Sense
Think
Rarely
Shame
Attempted
Feel
Romance
Being
Want
Anymore
Romantic
Which
Even
I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.
Criss Angel
Inspire
Passion
National
Before
Think
Rally
Way
Magic
Give
Vegas
Never
Attempted
Develop
Self-Confidence
True
Know
Effort
Just
Children
Social
Them
Really
Skills
Use
Help
Even
Social Skills
Las Vegas
Here
When you look at other good-bad movies like 'Sharknado' and 'Birdemic,' those movies know that they're B movies, know that they're silly and over the top, as opposed to 'The Room,' where Tommy Wiseau, the guy at the centre of it all, he attempted to make a very earnest drama.
Dave Franco
You
Other
Drama
Earnest
Top
Those
Silly
Guy
Attempted
He
Over
Over-The-Top
Like
Know
Look
Make
Opposed
Very
Where
Movies
Centre
Room
Tommy
With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.
Dave Gibbons
You
Made
Think
Way
Out
Tell
Deliberately
Attempted
Clear
Accessible
Comic
Very
Artwork
Chili
Turns
Sucking
Watchmen
There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
Dick Cheney
Time
Will
Believe
Every
Back
Spend
States
Further
Ourselves
Would
Would-Be
Attack
Attacks
Attempted
Miss
Terrible
Because
Got
Tragedy
So Much Time
Against
Us
Much
Next
Reason
Bin
United
United States
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