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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
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
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. -- Bill Rancic
I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer. -- Jane D. Hull
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. -- Sue Kelly
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. -- Peter Ackroyd
House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time. -- Dennis Cardoza
The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films. -- Emraan Hashmi
The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately. -- Holly Madison
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. -- Henry Adams
I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes. -- Maynard Webb
Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee. -- John Jay Hooker
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing. -- David Knopfler
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. -- Ida B. Wells
The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum. -- Evelyn Glennie
In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking. -- Irvin Kershner
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. -- Linus Torvalds
In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. -- Archie Shepp
In a change effort, culture comes last, not first. -- John P. Kotter
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making. -- Ordway Tead
Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted. -- Man Ray
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. -- Plato
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. -- Elgin Baylor
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last. -- John F. Kennedy
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
Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort. -- Darin Erstad
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future. -- Martha Gellhorn
Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable. -- Dwane Casey
I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way. -- Daniel Johns

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