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You probably also know that she has spent 15 of the last 20 years imprisoned for her efforts to bring about democracy.
These were typically not solitary efforts.
There is so much organic social action all around Google that the company decided to form a social responsibility team just to support these efforts.
This is the result of heroic efforts over decades by teams from a variety of countries and international collaborations.
I have been basically spending the last few years documenting the efforts of some extremely intrepid men and women who are putting, literally at times, their lives at stake working in some very remote and very hostile places so that they may gather the faintest signals from the cosmos in order for us to understand this universe.
Despite my efforts to comfort myself, I still left my community as soon as I could, and I went to architecture school and then into a professional career designing shopping centers, homes for the wealthy and office buildings, until I stepped into a prison for the first time.
Now shared car services are also springing up around the world, and these efforts, I think, are great.
If I can learn by watching you, I can steal your best ideas, and I can benefit from your efforts, without having to put in the time and energy that you did into developing them.
I believe that the most important thing is to understand that if we don't pay attention to these efforts, they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened.
And through some heroic efforts and a lot of Internet searching, she was able to convince the medical community that, in fact, they had something else.
But I realize that at the end of the day, our efforts do not always yield our desires.
It's not a reason for us to think that our efforts are of no consequence.
I'd like to also thank personally the efforts of David Mitchell, who is the Director of Conservation at Historic Scotland.
It's incredible, the power that we have when we stand together, human resistance, people having this power, some of the most oppressed people you can possibly imagine costing this company hundreds of millions of dollars, and now our divestment efforts, focusing on the banks behind these projects, costing them billions of dollars.
And I made myself a bargain that if only I redouble my efforts to be perfect and never make another mistake again, please make the voices stop.
I hope you will support the efforts of our armed forces to train soldiers like this young captain and provide her with a good gun, instead of the bad gun my father was given.
I want to show you a short video that does kind of show our efforts right now to bring these sides together into a single conversation.
It's going to take the civil rights litigators, the community organizers, the academics, the media, the philanthropists, the students, the singers, the poets, and, of course, the voices and efforts of those who are impacted by this system.
And what's great is that the trachoma community have all come together to pool their efforts.
For years, I had resisted medication, making many, many efforts to get off.
Let's go into every country that will let us in, ask 1,001 people what they want the new goals to be, making special efforts to reach the poorest, those without access to modern technology, and let's make sure that their views are at the center of the goals going forward.
If those kinds of efforts just could multiply their voice and amplify it at the key moments, I know for a fact we'd get better policy.
If all our efforts at improving the world have been in vain, why throw good money after bad?
It's the result of human efforts governed by an idea, an idea that we associate with the 18th century Enlightenment, namely that if we apply reason and science that enhance human well-being, we can gradually succeed.
Public libraries have always been about community support with all kinds of services and programs from assisting with job seeking efforts to locating resources for voter rights to providing free meals to kids and teens even.
Soon after, an organization I volunteer with, All Hands Volunteers, were on the ground, within days, working as part of the response efforts.
Or a girl who decides that she is going to leave love letters around her campus in Dubuque, Iowa, only to find her efforts ripple-effected the next day when she walks out onto the quad and finds love letters hanging from the trees, tucked in the bushes and the benches.
And they supported my creative efforts, because my grandfather was a self-made man.
They're excited about all this, but they're also concerned that it might be competitive with the extremely important efforts to protect endangered species that are still alive, that haven't gone extinct yet.
And a documentary that we're doing on Jimmy Carter and his Mid-East peace efforts over the years.
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