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It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.
What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?
For Hillary Clinton, Iowa was a tough state for her in 2008, and she's put a lot of effort into fixing those mistakes.
No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.
Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.
A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect.
When you have five skill positions, if all five of them are contributing to the offensive effort, then that's balanced.
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.
I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.
Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded.
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
Don't give me an easy fight. I want somebody that's worth it, that's put in their time and put in the amount of effort.
The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.
I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.
You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.
Yohan Cabaye. He's a French player, and he dresses really well every day. There's no effort. That's how I like to dress.
Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
Harry [Styles] is like a younger brother. We do exercises together then he asks me to prepare a sandwich for the effort.
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.
To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let's put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.
We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.
I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.