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"A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts."
"It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away."
"At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem."
"There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so."
"The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts."
"God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man."
"I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience."
"I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing."
"The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always express his new-hidden thoughts lucidly and according to accepted models."
"writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts."
"Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul."
"Its going to require a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and hopefully derail some of the adverse impacts that we are experiencing today and the devastating impacts that we are going to experience in the future as a result of global warming."
"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully."
"It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes."
"The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good."
"Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words."
"The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen."
"I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort."
"For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be."
"While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last."
