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Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. – William Feather	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. – Brian Tracy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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 stones. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body. – Norman Cousins	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare. – Baruch Spinoza	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. – Cato the Elder	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. – Rebecca West	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. – Havelock Ellis	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. – Gertrude Stein	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. – Tacitus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. – Saadi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment. – Richard Nixon	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 10 years ago
…[I]n order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. – Ezra Pound	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his income depends on his not understanding it. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away. – Harold Geneen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other? – George Eliot	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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