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• You can’t get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  Randy Pausch

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• I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

  Randy Pausch

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• I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

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• He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

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• I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

  William Lloyd Garrison

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• I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard!

  William Lloyd Garrison

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• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

  Jean Anouilh

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• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

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• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

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