"Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade."
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means."Comment
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."Comment
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"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."Comment
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."Comment
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks."Comment
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"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."Comment
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"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."Comment
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."Comment
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"It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best."Comment
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"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."Comment
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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."Comment
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"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."Comment
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all."Comment
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world."Comment
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."Comment
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"The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure."Comment
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."Comment
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"It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.Comment
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"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later."Comment
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"I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."Comment
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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."Comment
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"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."Comment
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"As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."Comment
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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."Comment
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"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."Comment
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"I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."Comment
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"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'"Comment
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. "Comment
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"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."Comment
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."Comment
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"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."Comment
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"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth."Comment
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"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."Comment
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."Comment
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"There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."Comment
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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."Comment
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"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."Comment
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"Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead."Comment
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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."Comment
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"Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems."Comment
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."Comment
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"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier."Comment
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder." (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)Comment
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