#efforts

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#constant #curry #divide #efforts #favor

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#efforts #federation #furthermore #government #great

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#broadest #broadest sense #efforts #enact #had

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#been #chicago #citadel #city #conservatives

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

— Joseph Haydn

#composed #efforts #great #i #never

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

#break #deny #efforts #made #may

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

— Eric Hobsbawm

#device #efforts #generating #major #necessary

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine. ↗

— Mort Walker

#bailey #beetle #day #disciplinary #editor

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#aim #become #efforts #human #human mind

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies. ↗

— Lois Capps

#any #challenge #coasts #colleagues #continue