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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Attempted Attempts Brood Channel Down He His Injury Keep Man May Mind Over Sometimes Succeed Too True Will Young Young Man

Keywords: Abandon


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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: Attempts Been Elections Eligible Keep Long People Voting

Keywords: Ability


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I've always been interested in oral traditions and mythological stories and legends from antiquity that have to do with nature, attempts to explain mysterious or puzzling, or very striking phenomena from nature. Things that people observed or heard about in nature.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: About Always Antiquity Attempts Been Explain Heard Interested Legends Mysterious Nature Observed Oral People Phenomena Puzzling Stories Striking Things Traditions Very

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For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

~Aeschines

Topics: Attempts Be Strong Cherish Lawless Laws Men Only Revolutionary Shall Strong Then Will You

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For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

~Al Gore

Topics: Advantage Any Attempts Because Continue Country Economy Exploit Free Going Openings Place Policy Power Reforms Regular Repeated See Society Stays Those Thriving Wealth Who You

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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Attempts Been Colonial Cut Had Made Many Off Slaves Tax

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By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

~Albert Maltz

Topics: Alert Attempts Became By The Time College Discrimination First Had Question Racial Remember Time Very Writing I Remember

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It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Ancestors Attempts Because Been Behavior Brutality Characterized Cruel Despicable Erase Identify Israel Land Lawless My Own Own Palestinians People Recognize Sadistic Treated Which I Can

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Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

~Allen Klein

Topics: After Any Attempts Deemed Humor Immediately September September 11Th Were

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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

Topics: Answering Appeals Attempts Examples Exist Making No Rules Rules Simply Vain

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