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Effort

"Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss."

Water Effort Forever
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Effort

"Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness"

Mean Effort
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal."

School Effort Office
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Ki Longfellow Author
Effort

"I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return."

Heart Giving Effort
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads."

People Heart Effort
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John F. Kennedy Politician
Effort

"[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking."

Effort Risk Incentives
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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States."

Hands Differences Effort
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John F. Kennedy Politician
Effort

"Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities."

Effort Risk Growth
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible."

Ideas Age Effort
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me."

Party Effort Safety
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
Effort

"Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work."

Use Effort Found
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Effort

"A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation."

Long Spiritual Effort
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Effort

"It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death."

Effort Purpose Achieve
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Effort

"If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action."

People Effort Peaceful
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Effort

"Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."

Want Effort Self Confidence
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