#effort

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

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I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there. ↗

— Payne Stewart

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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#break #could #disease #effort #everyone

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

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In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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