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It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

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The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. ↗

— Lawrence Kohlberg

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From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. ↗

— Brian Tracy

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I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. ↗

— Robert Walpole

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I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end. ↗

— David Walliams

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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. ↗

— Alan Watts

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If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

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