"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."

Effort, Labor, Motive, Selfishness

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"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."

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"The one thing that matters is the effort."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Hard tasks need hard ways."

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Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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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."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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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."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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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."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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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!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."

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"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."

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"I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town."

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