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Effort Quotes
"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."
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"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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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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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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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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"I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying."
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"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."
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"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
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"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?"
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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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"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
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"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
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"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."
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"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."
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"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."
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"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
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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."
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"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."
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"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
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"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
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"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
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"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."
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"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
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"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."
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"California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort."
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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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"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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