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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. ↗

— Xenophon

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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

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Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

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Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ↗

— Ovid

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