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I used to lie between cool clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it and talk to God.

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People who make the choice to study work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous yet are not willing to put that work in and they want to get the same praise.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

In the re-creation of combat situations and this is coming from a director who's never been in one being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place no matter by whom brought on we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without we must try to extinguish it.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products but as a technology aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in we have to do with sober sad realities with stubborn facts.

I leave CNN with the utmost respect love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

But when women are moved and lend help when women who are by nature calm and controlled give encouragement and applause when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love then it is invincible.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.