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Claude M. Bristol
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
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Richard Bach
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[This quote had been associated with David Dunham, who has stated that he is not the originator.]
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Norton Juster
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. ???You???ll find,??? he remarked gently, ???that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that???s hardly worth the effort.???
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Laurence J. Peter
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The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not obtained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night
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Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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Ken Rockwell
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Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient fo
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Sophocles
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Success is dependent on effort.
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W. J. Cameron
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The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.
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Jim Rohn
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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
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Weinbaum
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If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
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Roger Bannister
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
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Unknown
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Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics.
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Anon.
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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Cassia Lewis
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Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.
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Matthew Arnold
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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Black Elk
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Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.
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John Ruskin
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Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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Vince Lombardi
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Sharon Salzberg
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Claude M. Bristol
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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
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Arnold Palmer
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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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Napoleon Hill
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Ronald Reagan
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Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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Herm Albright
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Erich Fromm
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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Hellen Keller
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Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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Sydney Smith
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
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Emma Goldman
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies
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Frank A. Clark
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
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Proverbs 47-8
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Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. ???You???ll find,??? he remarked gently, ???that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that???s hardly worth the effort.???
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David Viscott
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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Arnold Bennett
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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Sean O'Casey
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What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
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Marquis de Condorcet
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soo
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Alfred Hitchcock
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It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating a semblance of a world out of airy matter . . . This wiser effort would have been, to diff
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Elizaveta Svilova
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Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something ve
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John Martin Fischer
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Vince Lombardi
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Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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Herman Melville
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In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion. It
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William Shakespeare
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be wor
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
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Why be difficult when with a bit of effort you can be impossible?
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Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
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Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
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No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
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This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
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I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
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For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
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"You gotta make a genuine effort to pretend you're interested." - Roy
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The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.
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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.
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"Our purpose is to improvise, the effort counts!" - Riker
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
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The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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"Good try. I give you a 9 out of 10 for effort." - Picard
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the doo
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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast impro
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he wou
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"Good try. Nine out of ten for effort." -- Picard
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we???d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives impo
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always plan
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"..you just don't put the effort into your schemes that you used to."
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"you just don't put the effort into your schemes that you used to."
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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties in
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