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• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George C. Lorimer

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Putting Things Off

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• I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together.
  It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

  Ariel Sharon

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  The Times, November 5, 2002.

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• It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

  David Levithan

  Easy, Persons, Knows

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Venus

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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• To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, Mean, Fighting

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  Brian Eno

  Obvious Things, Comfort, Doe

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Want, Easy

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Beauty, Beautiful, Looking Good

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• My cats, the ones that I have, were feral when I found them so the relationship that I have with them 10 years in is very mutual, earned, and evolved over time. It was never an easy thing. I like that they have a certain distance and have their own sense of selves.

  Marc Maron

  Distance, Cat, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Nice, Home

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• Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Forgiving, Easy, Things To Do

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Easy, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.

  Kurt Russell

  Opportunity, Want, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

  Evan Williams

  Easy, Reaching, Valuable

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Nature, War

  "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville". Essay by Warren Buffett published in Hermes, the Columbia Business School Magazine (1984), later quoted in "31 years ago, Warren Buffett revealed the secret to investing and correctly predicted nobody would listen" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. August 24, 2015.

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• I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, they want it on a grand scale. But once you realize - and it's not a big trick to really figure it out - that it's just completely artificial, an external pumping of the ego that's never going to really help you, then it's an easy thing to step out of it. That's probably why Harrison Ford lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

  Woody Harrelson

  Love You, Thinking, Wyoming

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Looks, Easy, Fantastic

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• The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Abiding, Easy, Lifestyle

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.9, Discovery House

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• It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

  Connie Willis

  Easy, Sock, Wet

  Connie Willis (2013). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Hachette UK

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• Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

  Trevor Noah

  Views, Groups, News

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Pain, Hate

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.270, Penguin UK

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• Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mistake, Judging, Stranger

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.84, Random House

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• It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually... because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Kids, Black And White, Thinking

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• Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Evil, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.

  Isaac Marion

  Tired, Growing, Earth

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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