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• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  Blaise Pascal

  Advice, Matter, Way

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• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  Natalie Wood

  Attention, Constant

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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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• 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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• The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Solitude, World

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• We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

  Ian Mckellen

  Men, Getting Older, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

  Amy Sillman

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• It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sides, Argument

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.120

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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 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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• There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

  Colleen McCullough

  Writing, Doubt, Stills

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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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• The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

  Simone Weil

  Morning, War, Eight

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• We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

  Lewis Mumford

  Order, Mind, Principles

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

  Lee Iacocca

  Hard Work, Kids, Effort

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• It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Father, Impossible

  "When darkness met light" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2000.

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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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• At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.

  Patrick Stewart

  Home, Dangerous World, Years

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

  Kate Hudson

  Home, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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 always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

  Veronica Roth

  Writing, Voice, People

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