"Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort."
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"No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul."
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"If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you."
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"The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort."
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"There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures."
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"And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered in school wherein I had excelled without labor, guided by theory, while many others, without mastery of theory failed despite monstrous effort. Better theory I thought had always worked for me and, if now available could make me acquire capital and independence faster and better assist everything I loved."
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"Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort."
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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."
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"People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort."
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"When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself."
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"...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless."
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"In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet."
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"We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence."
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"The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed."
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"Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."
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"Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith."
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"How does he achieve this independence? He does it by means of a continuous activity. How does he become free? By means of constant effort. we know that development results from activity. The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."
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"Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through."
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"Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature."
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"People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it."
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