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

Paul Tagliabue, American Executive

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"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

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

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"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."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

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"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."

Lorrie Fair, American Athlete

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"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

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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 trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."

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"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God."

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"Politics makes me sick."

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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 government is for the benefit of all the people."

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"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."

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"Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea."

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"Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies."

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"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."

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"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win."

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