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"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort."
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"Hard tasks need hard ways."
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"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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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."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about."
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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