#attempt

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You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.


Peter Hain


#attempts #back #debate #deliver #expect

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.


Kurt Huber


#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.


Steve Israel


#any #attempts #ban #christmas #claus

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.


Harry Johnston


#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.


Gilbert Murray


#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.


John von Neumann


#anyone #attempts #course #generate #living

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.


M. Scott Peck


#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.


Robert H. Schuller


#attempt #fail #great #i #nothing

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.


Joseph Howe


#attempt #british #circle #could #daring

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


Robert Penn Warren


#autobiography #deepest #hazardous #part #poem