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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

~George Eliot

Topics: Continue Desire Effort Escape Evil Except Hopelessly Love Make Us

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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Brown Effort Insurrection John Peculiar Slave

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The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.

~George Packer

Topics: Advice Always Architects Battles Douglas Each Effort Expert Fighting Ideological Ignored Including Iraq Iraq War Iraqi Iraqi People Long Longer Made Most Other People Principal Regarded Reserved Shot War Washington Who

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Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

~George Papandreou

Topics: Changes Come Doing Effort Greek Greeks Huge Made Making Often Out People Reform Say Things Very Will

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The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

~George Pataki

Topics: Centers Cessation Continuing Effort Even Expansion Give Help Historic Important Important Part More Need New New Yorkers Once Our Part Quit Smokers Tobacco Will

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For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

~George Pataki

Topics: Against Attacks Ears Effort Eyes Federal First First Time Further Investigation Local Protect Serve State Time Us

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

~George Sand

Topics: Difficult Difficult Thing Effort Experience Genius Last Limit Most Most Difficult Thing Secure Simplicity Thing World

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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

~George Santayana

Topics: Aim Consists Effort Fanaticism Forgotten You Your

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

~George Santayana

Topics: Art Effort Eternal Existence Interesting Keep Recreate

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I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

~George Stephen

Topics: Advertising Business Depend Developing Devoted Effort Family Few Fiction Income Lot My Time Past Past Few Years Point Support Time Where Writing Years I Can

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