The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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Original: A ladeira leva ao moinho, mas o esforço n?o leva a nada.
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Ibid., p. 171Fernando Pessoa
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"Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence."
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
When I look at western civilization, it's so messed up. They want to overcomplicate everything, and I think they do it through intellectualizations or apathies, or whatever, but they want to overcomplicate everything and sometimes I think they've been conditioned to want to overcomplicate everything so that, therefore, they don't have to act....And perception...what does it take? It takes for us to tell ourselves the truth. It takes for us to tell ourselves the truth. That's what it takes. Not to lie to ourselves.
John Trudell
This ain't no tall order, this nothing to me / Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week.
Jay-Z
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.
Kenneth Clark
He takes the strangest liberties —
But never takes his leave!John Godfrey Saxe
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