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"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."
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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."

"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."

"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."

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

"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."

"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."

"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."

"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."

"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."

"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."

"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."

"You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him."

"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."
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