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• Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

  Leonard Orr

  Boredom, Negative, Used

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• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

  Clement Greenberg

  Cezanne, Evolution, Painting

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "On the Role of Nature in Modernist Painting" (1949), p. 171, 1961.

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt.

  Tom Coburn

  Believe, Government, White

  "No Katrina sacrifice", www.cnn.com. September 15, 2005.

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• Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

  Michael Dell

  Heart, People, Generosity

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• With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some peace of mind when they send their children off to school in the morning, .. Since children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness, schools must be vigilant in their efforts to ensure that cafeterias are not putting children at risk. These changes in law will support parents who want to work with school principals and food-service directors to ensure a safe environment.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Morning, Children, Believe

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Commitment, Two, Majority

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• Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

  Nelson Goodman

  Confusion, Obscurity, Rewards

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  Nelson Goodman

  Lying, Answers, Dull

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Hair, Looks, Messy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Virginia, Giving

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Children, Past

  Wassily Kandinsky (1983). “Kandinsky, Russia and the Bauhaus, 1912-1932: January 5-Febr Uary 11, 1984”

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• When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Home, People, Looks

  LeRoy Neiman (1974). “Art & lifestyle”

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• Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

  Alain Prost

  Thinking, Winning, Race

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Important, Society

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

  Burt Rutan

  Government, Space, Als

  "Private spacecraft blast offs June 21" by Leonard David, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Nuclear, Exhausted

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• When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Analogies, Representation

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Blind, Desperate

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.

  Mark Sanford

  Thinking, Levels, Today

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• Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

  William Graham Sumner

  Art, Doe, Tasks

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Shadow, Wrecks, May

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

  Armstrong Williams

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Long

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