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I think he really was trying to be a good grandfather, maybe that wasn't the easiest thing for him most of his life, because he had worked so hard. But we had a moment — it was one of those moments you treasure.

Harley Earl

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9 years ago

My job is sometimes the easiest job in the world and sometimes my job is the most difficult job in the world.

Joe Leask

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9 years ago

It was decided as a team, as an office, this would be what we do so that there wouldn't be any discrimination, the easiest way is to not do them at all.

Courts Ronnie Fussell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Investing in ships is not the easiest area, it requires extreme carefulness and special expertise.

Esko Torsti

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9 years ago

The truth is, women don't apply, and oftentimes, minorities don't apply, because they simply don't know it's available (and) don't know they can do it, and the easiest way to dispel that is just to put someone there that looks like you.

Leah Rambo

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Richard DeVos

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9 years ago

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

David Mamet

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9 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

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10 years ago

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape

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13 years ago

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

William Van Horne

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13 years ago

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan

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13 years ago

The truth is easiest to disprove - its defenses are down.

Steve Aylett, Toxicology (a book, 1999)

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13 years ago

I can accept anthing, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Ayn Rand

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13 years ago

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one's self.

Demosthenes, Olynthiac

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13 years ago

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine arts; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest to reach true perfection.

E.C. Stedman

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13 years ago

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions— especially selfish ones.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.

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13 years ago

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

George Bernhard Shaw

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13 years ago

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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13 years ago

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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14 years ago

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Henry Miller

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14 years ago

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

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14 years ago

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

Demosthenes

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14 years ago

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Demosthenes

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14 years ago

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Phillips Feynman

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14 years ago

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