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• A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Training, Negative

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe”, p.84

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• All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Trying, Wanted

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Simple, Needs

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• It is difficult to fly without wings.

  Plautus

  Wings

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• It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Government, Easy

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• Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

  Euripides

  Age, Temper, Deals

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Home, Crime, Singularity

  "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891)

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• It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Spring, Men, Profound

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

  Sallust

  War, Easy

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

  Billy Graham

  May, Tests, Way

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• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  Natalie Wood

  Attention, Constant

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• It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

  Georges Courteline

  Painful, Still In Love, Stills

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• For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

  Epicurus

  Impossible, Have Confidence, Concealment

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

  Irving Babbitt

  Failure, Important, Achieve

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• A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Kindness, Men, Opinion

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• In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

  Roman Abramovich

  Kids, Russia, Play

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

  David Hare

  Trying, Libertarian, Century

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Fickle, Film, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

  Kate Bush

  Sound, Would Be, Tape

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

  Victoria Beckham

  Hands, People, Trying

  "Victoria Beckham is ELLE’s March cover star". www.elle.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Foundation, Fans, Jiu Jitsu

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• GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

  James Marcus

  Expectations, Secret, Lows

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• In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
  And, like it or not, you're in it.

  Steve Sheinkin

  Teamwork, Sight, Example

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