"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."

Effort, Race

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"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."

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"A lazy person will never grow wealthy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The work is plentiful but the labours are few."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If you have never planted, then you cannot expect a great harvest."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful."

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"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners."

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"Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day."

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"Government is waging war against the people."

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"We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children."

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"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution."

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"As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be."

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"What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s."

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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."

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"As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear."

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