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It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

~Anthony Fauci

Topics: Any Attempt Commitment Disciplines Involves Long-Term Malaria Multiple Must Now Organizations Recognized Strategies Widely

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'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Attempt Body Matter Particular Question Really Responsibility Sculpture Social Social Responsibility Times Whose

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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

~Archibald Alexander

Topics: Acts Apology Attempt Being Condemnation Evil Excuse Ground Heart Instead Justify Never Our Plead Pleading Sin Sinful Valid Very Will

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It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

~Arianna Huffington

Topics: Ability Attempt Attitudes Between Characteristics Differences Disastrous Female Fit Force Futile Keeping Masculine Pattern Pretense Sexes Skills Specifically Suppress Them Up Women Would

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In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.

~Arthur L. Herman

Topics: Attempt Between Chance Clinton Committed Conflict Contribution Deal Decided East Final Grand He His Hussein Israel Last Lie Man Middle Middle East Missed Office Palestinians Peace Publicly Removal Resolve Saddam Saddam Hussein Would Year

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I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.

~Ashton Kutcher

Topics: Attempt Grow Mustache Pretty Sad

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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

~Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Topics: Attempt Cannot Describe Fights Followed Frantic Gestures Language Little Scene Shall Taunt Therefore

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I fail every once in a while, but failing is your first attempt at learning. I'm not worried about it.

~Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Topics: About Attempt Every Fail Failing First Learning Once While Worried Your

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Another Attempt Between Boy Cocktails Dozen Half Her Herself Loose Mama Me Monumental Nature Pity Pry Sympathize Take Task Two Who Will Woman Young Young Woman

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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

~Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Asleep Attempt Case Confidence Difficult Dismayed Easy Fall May Other Tasks Were

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