"The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort."
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"I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them."
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"Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out."
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"The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged."
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"Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments."
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"There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig"
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"Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort."
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"When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment."
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"When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part."
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"The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess."
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"All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding."
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"Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me."
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"All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness."
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"It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others."
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"I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements."
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"I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired."
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"I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings."
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"The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts."
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"Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, "okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there." It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us."
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