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"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."

"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."

"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."

"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."

"Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved."

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."

"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."

"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"

"People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along."

"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."

"Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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