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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Attempt Beings Call Despise Force Hell Human Human Beings Themselves

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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

~Andrew Coyle Bradley

Topics: About Attempt Brought Course Felt His Inevitable Least Makes Precise Rarely Shakespeare Surprise Though Very Way Which Will

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The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.

~Andrew Mwenda

Topics: Africa Attempt Century Christian Claimed Disease End First Itself Late Led Missionaries Poverty Save Seeking Slave Trade Western Who 19Th Century

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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: Appearance Art Attempt Beyond Built City Deeper Ground Growth Made Mean Nature Parks Reach See Stone Surface Time Understanding Want Which Wood

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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

~Andy Goldsworthy

Topics: All My Work Appearance Attempt Beneath Energy Get Ice Internal Leaf Rock Stone Surface Things Trying Understand Whether Work Working

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I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.

~Andy Mineo

Topics: Also Attempt Challenge Create Encourage Faith First Intrigue Land Like Music Never People Really Share Strong Think Who I Think

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No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

~Aneurin Bevan

Topics: Am Attempt Burning Concerned Deep Eradicate Ethical Far Hatred Heart Lower Party Seduction Social Than Tory I Am

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I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

~Angela Lansbury

Topics: Actress Almost Almost Anything Anything Attempt Bring Could Journeyman Myself Off Think Will I Think I Can

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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

~Anish Kapoor

Topics: Always Artist Attempt Fractured Live Make Role Seen Wholeness World

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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

~Anita Hill

Topics: African-American Always Attempt Community Even Expense Our Our Community Ourselves Protect Think Though Trained Value Women I Think

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