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There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended. ↗

— James Longstreet

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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes". ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. ↗

— John Major

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The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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