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“Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort”

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“A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.”

Simple Effort Principles Members Thanks Propaganda Labour Conventions June Supervision

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.”

Way Needs Has Beens Two Hard Sides Levels Effort Share Members Majors Commitment Resources Areas Majority Best Way Relief Regions Coast Both Sides Assistance Hurricanes Aisle

Author:Bob Goodlatte

“China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.”

Should Important States Effort Four Serious Members Disease Bird Organization China Russia Target Combat Cooperation Asian Flu Prevention Infectious Diseases Bird Flu

Author:Wen Jiabao

“Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.”

People Children Stories Care Powerful Effort Focus Magic Team Lessons Members Creating Strategy Simplicity Core Collections Relevant Elegant Practicality Working Life

Author:George Bodenheimer

“Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.”

Long Running Law Difficult Effort Family Members Complaining Circles Long Runs Conform Preference Family Life Unwritten Personal Preferences

Book:A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

Source: A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

“Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring of personal boundaries, a welding together of family members. On an unconscious level, it is hard for family members to know where one ends and another begins. In their efforts to be close, they often suffocate one another's individuality.”

“I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.”

“The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed when this is taken out of its context of proper sentiments and presented bare, for he feels that this is a reintrusion of that world which his whole conscious effort has sought to banish. Forms and conventions are the ladder of ascent. And hence the speechlessness of the man of culture when he beholds the barbarian tearing aside some veil which is half adornment, half concealment.”

“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?”

Mind Ends Eye America House Effort Records Dog Internet Republican Members Benefits Tired Congress Hearing Reform Fixed Contracts Free Speech Madison

Author:John Gibbons

“Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.”

“I believe that there have been repeated attempts to influence prices in the silver markets. There have been fraudulent efforts to persuade and deviously control that price. Based on what I have been told by members of the public, and reviewed in publicly available documents, I believe violations to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) have taken place in silver markets and that any such violation of the law in this regard should be prosecuted.”

Should Believe Has Beens Law I Believe Effort Taken Influence Members Regard Available Silver Documents Commodity Violation

Author:Bart Chilton

“During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.”

Giving Effort Promise Members Empty Election Campaigns Invited Better Life Empty Promises Lithuania

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all of our efforts. As we labor here in mortality, He will strengthen us and bring us peace in time of trials. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walk by faith in Him whose Church it is.”

Jesus Belief Christ Church Walks Effort Accepting Members Jesus Christ Labor Saint Guides Trials Latter Bless Mortality Savior Latter Days Latter Day Saints Walk By Faith

Author:L. Tom Perry

“My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.”

Years Next Party Effort Leader Members Labor Tasks Election Former Ministers Prime Prime Minister Parliament Australian Julia

Author:Kevin Rudd

“To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.”

Humans Realizing Community Effort Development Members International Lasting Human Society Sustainable Development International Community

Author:Wu Bangguo

“Part of what the [British] dossier says is this, quote, "The operation", meaning the effort to influence our election, "that has been conducted with the full knowledge and support of [Donald] Trump and senior members of his campaign team. In return, in return, the Trump team has agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue."”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.”

People Should Individual Church Effort Members Workers Lifts Ministers Impress Individual Effort

Book:Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV

Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV