"Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort."
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"What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort."
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"I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued."
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"As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts."
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"Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis."
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"It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible."
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"Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort."
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"Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all."
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"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."
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"The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist."
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"Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent."
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"Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug."
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities."
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day."
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"The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it."
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"What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest."
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"Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior."
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"When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy."
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