"Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend."
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"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."
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"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty."
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"But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand."
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"I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me."
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"And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form."
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"Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices."
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"Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five."
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"We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm."
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"Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war."
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"Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless."
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"Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises."
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"It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place."
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"Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled."
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"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them."
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"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."
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"We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly."
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"Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils."
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"I continuously strive to touch lives."
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"For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man."
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