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«We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure»
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
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achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«Only events and not a man's exertions in his own behalf, can make a President»
«The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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exertions, extravagant, necessities, nonessential, passionate, priority, superfluities, superfluity, The Chief, Top Priority, traits, uniqueness, unlike
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Debt
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burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«Thus supported by a firm trust in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the collected wisdom of the Union, and imploring the divine benediction on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily engage with you in the arduous but p»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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aided, arbiter, arbiters, arduous, benediction, benedictions, collected, divine service, engage, exertions, implore, imploring, joint, readily, supported, The Service, the union
«It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Country,
Happiness,
Virtue
| Keywords:
boast, collective, dependent, dependent on, exertions, peculiar, rests, The Collective
«Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
automatic, concern, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, exertions, Human sacrifice, individuals, inevitable, justice, passionate, requires, sacrifice, struggle, The Goal, tireless
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