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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. ↗

— Leo Durocher

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This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible. ↗

— Daryl Hall

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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

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Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence. ↗

— John Haynes

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

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