"Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money."
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"When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script."
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"Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive."
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"No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it."
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"Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort."
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"Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life."
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"Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force."
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"There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship."
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"Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."
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"I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone."
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"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts."
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"When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!"
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"Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount."
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"Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical."
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"I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it."
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"Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect."
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"In the face of such a threat, they had no other choice but to throw themselves to the far left. But now that the people are conscious of our efforts, now that they see us resolving problems, the communists are losing strength."
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"I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue."
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"No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery."
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"And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die."
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