The student's account Jiang entertains says pride can generate sloth by making a person believe natural ability removes the need for effort.
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Effort
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"Because you believe your innate ability requires less action and energy to achieve your goals than the truth, than in reality. But I don't..."
"...eternal damnation but it's your choice so if you make the effort you can always uh leave hell and this is something that we..."
"...use, if a teacher tells me that, I know how much effort I need to put for their class because I mean this in..."
"...to unconditional love praying to god committed to good works that effort would allow the child to ascend to the imperium and here with..."
"...could be meritocracy because if you think you provided the same efforts then if someone has something it's the meritocracy okay it's the meritocracy..."
"...the one who wrote letters to Henry praising him for his efforts. But again, it's like... We're in heaven, and we're taught that in..."
"...right here, he is expecting God to reward him for his effort. Um, okay."
"You will love Dante if you make the effort to appreciate Dante, and I don't think anyone else compares to Dante. Okay? I make..."
"...you could say, well, it was because he spent so much effort into writing Divine Comedy that he exhausted his body and he caught..."
"...you know, experiencing the universe, but logic is the conscious human effort involving language and other, you know, centralized methods to experience the universe,..."
"...reason outside of his control? Would there be individual or collective effort to follow same ideology and continue his plan?"
"...and no justification whatsoever. For our part, we are making our efforts to assist the Iranian people. Okay? So this was last June, actually,..."
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