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Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ↗

— George Santayana

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. ↗

— George Santayana

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It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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