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This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.
Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.
I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.
In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
Lack of true progress may not be a result of not doing what one is supposed to, but lack of focused effort trying not to do too much.
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.
I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.
She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.
I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.
Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.
In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.
My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.