"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence."
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"By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully."
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"Some times your best effort just isn't good enough."
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"One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research."
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"Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too."
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"Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity."
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"It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity."
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"Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act"
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"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
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"Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!"
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"There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor."
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"I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace."
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"Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising."
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"Effort + the courage to show up = enough."
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"The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts."
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"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
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"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
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"Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort."
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"Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort."
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"It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!""
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