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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.


Warren Weaver


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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.


William Butler Yeats


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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.


Amelia Barr


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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.


John Haggai


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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.


Andre Breton


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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.


Anthony Minghella


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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.


John M. Ford


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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.


Peter Gabriel


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