#effort

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#country #crisis #effort #efforts #financial

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

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My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. ↗

— Colin Powell

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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. ↗

— Colin Powell

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You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent