- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Effort Quotes
On the work that adds up, together and alone.
This set ranges widely - from effort measured on a national, historic scale down to the smaller daily effort it takes to treat people with patience. For a closer look at working smarter, see Efficient.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.
- Comradeship
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
- Diplomacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican effort to make the September 11th attack on Benghazi into a scandal is really about one thing and one thing only: Hillary Clinton.
- Concerted Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be very cognizant of the fact that 90 percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated, programmed, and controlled by conservatives. They made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020