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Emmet Fox
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It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real trage
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Epictetus
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There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
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Joe Moore
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Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles.
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Edward R. Murrow
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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Confucius
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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.
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George Santayana
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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John Maynard Keynes
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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Peter De Vries
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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Thomas Jefferson
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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George Bernard Shaw
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What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.
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Matthew Arnold
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
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Mark Twain
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
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Lionel Trilling
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness
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Henri Frdric Amiel
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
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John Dewey
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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have th
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Margaret Weis
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere
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William Cullen Bryant
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
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Robertson Davies
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is
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Alexander Hamilton
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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Robert Louis Stephenson
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Abraham Lincoln
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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Ronald Reagan
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As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.
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Peter McWilliams
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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The difficulty in life is the choice.
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
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The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
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Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.
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I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks.
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"Computer, increase difficulty to level four." Alexander
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - A. Einstein
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But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
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"I have had great difficulty in determining what funny is" - Data
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"I admit difficulty in following this logic." - Archerfish
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"I have difficulty remembering whose side I'm on." -- Picard
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"I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." - Z. Beeblebrox
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"I seem to be having a tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
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"Difficulty is not in new ideas, but in escaping old ones."
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"I'm so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis"--Zaphod
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My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form
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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on
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