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  A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Believe, Hard Work, Men

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• One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams, it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read - you ought to listen to her.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Teacher, Reading

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Nalle Elementary School, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 9, 2001.

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• I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.

  Erin Moran

  Girl, Dresses, Poodles

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• If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Usa, America

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• I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Texas, Years, Missing

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• I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

  Steve Wilkos

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Rose

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• Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Goal, Getting High, Might

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, Men, Curves

  "Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth Century". Book by Richard Weston, 2004.

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• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  Wallace Stegner

  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

  Gary Snyder

  Fire, Dormant, Flood

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press

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• Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zero, Writing, Trying

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• It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Hate, Men, Long

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• Hard words are for fools and cowards.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Coward, Fool, Hard Words

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• It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Stay Calm, Mercy

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• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

  Olive Schreiner

  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

  Alan Paton

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

  Tom DeLay

  Emotional, Trying, Minimum Wage

  Congressional Record, Volume 142, No.53, April 23, 1996.

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• After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Hard Work, Ohio

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• The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Successful, Thinking

  "2000 - part two" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.

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• More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

  George W. Bush

  War, Two, Way

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.913, Government Printing Office

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• Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking About You, Want, Knows

  Damien Hirst, Gordon Burn (2002). “On the Way to Work”, Universe Pub

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• Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

  Toni Morrison

  Hard Work, Creativity, Hatred

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.74, Random House

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• It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000 years. And that is intelligence, hard work, honesty, a sense of character, loyalty to family and friends, and above all, love and faith. If you are trying to decide what you should do, those are the things you should do. And you know it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Graduation, Loyalty, Honesty

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• I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

  Trisha Goddard

  Alcohol, Keel, Concerned

  "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  Pat Metheny

  Hard Times, Night, Saws

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