#endeavor

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#nature

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ↗

— Socrates

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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ↗

— Ted Williams

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You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious. ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

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The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

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You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. ↗

— James Spader

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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

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