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Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

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...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

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Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

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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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To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

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The reward of eternal life requires effort.

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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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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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It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

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If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.

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Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

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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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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

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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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He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.

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