"There is no human failure greater than to……" — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general… — Annie Besant
• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play… — Jack Black
• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. — David Brainerd
• The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
• In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and… — Giacomo Casanova
• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis
• One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one… — Charles Darwin
• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of… — Joseph Paxton
• The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and… — Karl Popper
• The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of… — Samuel Johnson

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