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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Truth, Made, Mad

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber

Freedom, Law, High

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Humanity, Problem

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Simone de Beauvoir

Art, Evil, Integrate

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis

Work, Motto, Impossible

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr

Fear, Sleep, Place

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Henry Miller

Life, Death, Two

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner

Natural, Laws, Species

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
Alanis Morissette

Down, Emotions, Deal

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

America, Working, Else

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda

Success, Time, Strength

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno

Through, Thought, Means

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Truth, Made, Mad

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Eddie Cantor

Marriage, Together, Problems

Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
Ovid

Through, Either

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman

Change, Great, Human

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens

Faith, Religion, Health

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

Done, Serious, Between

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, Nothing, After

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
Chief Joseph

Lost, Made, Find

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh

Opinion, Another, Used

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.
Rush Limbaugh

Men, Power, Society

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
David Herbert Lawrence

Experience, Deep, Human

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

Love, End, Nothing

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper

Nature, Humility, Together

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Ovid

Difficult, Worth, Task

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Time, Keep

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Lee Iacocca

Try, Rather, Worth

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James

Life, Reason, Existence

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