Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Government Quotes, Effort Quotes

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

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It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.

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But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

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Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

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A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort Quotes

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

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The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously

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We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.

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We reject the killing of innocents to achieve a radical and violent agenda. The terrorists and their state sponsors, Iran and Syria, have a much darker vision. They're working to thwart the efforts that of the Lebanese people to break free from foreign domination and build their own democratic future. The terrorists and their sponsors are not going to succeed. The Lebanese people have made it clear they want to live in freedom. And now it's up to their friends and allies to help them do so.

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Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

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

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , People Quotes , Effort Quotes

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

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