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Effort Quotes
"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."
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"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
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"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."
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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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"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."
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"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."
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"My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort."
7
"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work."
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"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve."
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"I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort."
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"You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome."
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"Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?"
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"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
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"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."
6
"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
6
"Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort."
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"It is always the start that requires the greatest effort."
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"I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links."
6
"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."
5
"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"
5
"This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die."
5
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
5
"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."
4
"They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do."
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"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
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"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."
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"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."
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"It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot."
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