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Effort Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
- Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get…
- Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore…
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- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister