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• My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

  Greg Graffin

  Teacher, Class, Might

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• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  Vera Wang

  Sacrifice, Athletic, Bed

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• The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Keys, Missionary

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.594, Discovery House

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

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• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Angel, Saint

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

  Lewis Thomas

  Clever, Thinking, Numbers

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• In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

  Martha Stewart

  New York, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

  Ben Stein

  Men, Fields, Succeed

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• In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Directors, Looks

  "Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s The Pacific". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. February 04, 2010.

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• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

  Jane Smiley

  Sports, Art, Horse

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• I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

  Joel Silver

  Thinking, Voice, Years

  "2nd Joel Silver Interview NINJA ASSASSIN. Plus Info on Dark Castle Projects, Remakes, SHERLOCK HOLMES, More". Roundtable interview, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Artist, Arrows, Elements

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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• I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Teaching, Perspective, Trying

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• The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Important, Making Money, Easier

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• Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

  Spike Lee

  Film, Hardest, Humankind

  Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, War, Men

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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Return, God Love, Should

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.

  Pope Pius XI

  Eye, Air, Effort

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• The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

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• To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Real, Progress

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• Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

  Robert Sheckley

  War, House, Lines

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible.

  Twyla Tharp

  Keys, Two, Creative

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

  Arthur Machen

  Fall, Trying, Saint

  Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.71, 谷月社

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• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

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