„Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.“
— Patañjali
„I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it.“
— Nikola Tesla
„Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.“
— Flannery O’Connor
„Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation. The effort at prohibiting all combination has substantially failed. The way out lies, not in attempting to prevent such combinations, but in completely controlling them in the interest of the public welfare.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.“
— Benito Mussolini
„It doesn't matter to me who you are or what your background is. If you want to use your own efforts to work harder—yes, I am with you all the way“
— Margaret Thatcher