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«The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
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«And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another. First - an attempted suicide.»
Author: Chris Hubbock
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attempted, blood-and-guts, Blood and, channel, guts, In Living Color, latest
«Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.»
Author: Mike Harding
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attempted, breast-fed, breast, breast feeding, chests, feeding, hairier, hairy, sneeze, sneezed, sneezes, sneezing
«From 1945 to the end of the century, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements struggling against intolerable regimes. . . . In the process, the US caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.»
«Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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«The consciousness of having attempted faithfully to discharge my duty, and the approbation of my Country will be a sufficient recompense for my Services»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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approbation, attempted, discharge, discharged, discharging, faithfully, My Country, recompense, services
«Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose»
«When we reflect how difficult it is to move or deflect the great machine of society, how impossible to advance the notions of a whole people suddenly to ideal right, we see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the na»
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