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Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. -- Robin Hobb
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. -- Russell Hoban
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right? -- Joyce Meyer
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. -- Max Lerner
Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion. -- Lewis Mumford
Being a decent human being will require effort and energyâ?¦ -- David Nicholls
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. -- Joel Garreau
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! -- Robert Browning
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. -- Mason Cooley
It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort. -- Sri Chinmoy
Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. -- Brian Tracy
Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort. -- Wang Yangming
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. -- Aldrich Ames
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience. -- Carl Jung
To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. -- Sigmund Freud
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Truth and effort may increase human worthBut they are not enough to make us whole;Only love can complete us. -- Ilchi Lee
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations. -- Unarine Ramaru
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice. -- Richard K. Morgan
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. -- Abba Eban
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. -- Judah P. Benjamin
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought. -- Alfred North Whitehead
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... -- Edgar Allan Poe
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame -- Virginia Woolf
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. -- James Allen
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges. -- Daniel Pinchbeck
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. -- Ayn Rand
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. -- L. Neil Smith
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy. -- B. J. Fogg
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. -- Lewis Thomas
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. -- William Howard Taft
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. -- Patricia Polacco
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights. -- Clare Short
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God. -- Philip Yancey
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. -- Howard Aiken
Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us. -- Dorothea Lange
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort. -- Joseph Conrad
We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness. -- Henri Nouwen
When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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