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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
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George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
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The Democrats have this high level of expectation of what government can do.
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Human trafficking is a human tragedy. Its an outrage against any decent people.
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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.
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.
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When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.
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Much effort, much prosperity.
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No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
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I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.
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Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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E. O. Wilson
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin
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I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
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