#endeavors

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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World peace, true love, and happily-ever-afters amount to wasted wishes, failed endeavors, and most precious dreams. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#greatness #heart #love #nadege #richards

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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