Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Race Quotes, Effort Quotes

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Expression Quotes , Effort Quotes

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Effort Quotes

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

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Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Effort Quotes

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Effort Quotes , Goes On Quotes

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Effort Quotes , Meditation Quotes

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Effort Quotes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Mean Quotes , Effort Quotes

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Writing Quotes , Effort Quotes

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

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The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Effort Quotes , Want Quotes

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Situations In Life Quotes , Effort Quotes

My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows, these are cogent enough. It rests essentially on the view that the free market is the only safe way of ensuring that productive effort is directed towards supplying what individuals actually want, and in a way which secures the dignity and independence of the worker.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

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Tags : A.J. Ayer Quotes , Effort Quotes , Insightful Quotes