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"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."	Felix Adler
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."	Herm Albright
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."	James Lane Allen
"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts."	Hannah Arendt
"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."	Matthew Arnold
"Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding."	Paul Auster
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."	Sri da Avabhas
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."	Roger Bannister
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential."	Black Elk
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."	Claude M. Bristol
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."	Charlotte Bronte
"The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke."	W. J. Cameron
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."	Robert J. Collier
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Pierre Corneille
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Quentin Crisp
"Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it."	Albert Einstein
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Euripides
"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."	John Martin Fischer
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Abraham Lincoln	Albert Einstein	Alexander Hamilton
Al Jaffee	Author Unknown	Black Elk
Cassia Lewis	Charlotte Bronte	Clare Boothe Luce
Claude M. Bristol	Daisaku Ikeda	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Erich Fromm	Euripides	Felix Adler
Friedrich Nietzsche	Hannah Arendt	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Miller	Herm Albright	Heroditus
James Lane Allen	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Martin Fischer
Matthew Arnold	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Og Mandino
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Orison Swett Marden	Paul Auster
Pierre Corneille	Quentin Crisp	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert J. Collier	Roger Bannister	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sri da Avabhas	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Will Rogers
W. J. Cameron	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett