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• Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

  Morgan James

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mistake, Vanity, Self

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 338, 1960.

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• Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Father, Enemy, Tasks

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, California, Tasks

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• I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

  Og Mandino

  Dust, Tasks, World

  Og Mandino (1986). “Mission: success!”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a way, which is: don't lie; if you're wrong, correct; do not misrepresent; and try and keep oneself intellectually honest - which means, as a writer, the very difficult task in public of admitting you were wrong.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Lying, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 12, 2010.

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• One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Believe, Simple, People

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• A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Laughing

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• It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

  Jeremy Collier

  Talking, Tasks, Purpose

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.24

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• I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Father, Tasks, Singers

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• Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

  Peter Singer

  Tasks, Saws, Construction

  Peter Singer (2000). “Marx: A Very Short Introduction”, p.100, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

  Randy Pausch

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Tasks, Host

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Style

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, World, Philosopher

  Karl Marx (1976). “The German Ideology: Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to The Critique of Political Economy”, Pyr Books

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• I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

  Richard Cobden

  Light, Law, People

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• My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Disappointment, Moon, Journey

  "People Share Moon Landing Memories On YouTube Channel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 19, 2014.

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• This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

  Christiana Figueres

  Firsts, Tasks, Development

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• It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

  Plutarch

  Tasks, Citizens, Ears

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.460, 谷月社

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• Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

  Emraan Hashmi

  Acting, Tasks, Sometimes

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• The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

  John Vianney

  Inspire, Tasks, Virtue

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• Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

  Carroll Quigley

  Civilization, Perspective, Historical

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

  George Eliot

  Men, Knowing, Soul

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.87, Penguin

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• How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Tasks

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• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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