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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ↗

— Ovid

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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. ↗

— Ovid

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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. ↗

— Walter Pater

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