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When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

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In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

~Bruce Catton

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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

~Caleb Carr

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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

~Carlisle Floyd

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Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between 'Rock Band' and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.

~Carrie Brownstein

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You want to have the perfect balance of hot and funny on your Instagram, but you never want too much of either... Don't try to add humility to your blatant 'hot' posts through a half-hearted attempt at being funny. You look good; just own it.

~Cazzie David

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No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

~Charles Albert Gobat

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You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

~Charles Dance

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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

~Charles Dudley Warner

Topics: Always Attempt Deception Matter Overdo People

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