Attempt
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Lying is an
attempt
to bridge that gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies about who we wish we were, how we wish we could be, with what we're really like.
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This means that a lot of people are just left completely dissatisfied and incredulous when I
attempt
to explain consciousness.
Jeff Hawkins, this morning, was describing his
attempt
to get theory, and a good, big theory, into the neuroscience.
By the way, Tony Hayward, the former CEO of BP, had a plaque on his desk inscribed with this inspirational slogan: "What would you
attempt
to do if you knew you could not fail?"
So my own surgeon performed the procedure in a last-ditch
attempt
to save my voice.
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