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• Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Philosophy, Hardship, Worst

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (1-6. Suffering, Offering, and Obedience), 1980.

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• It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

  Bill Parcells

  Quarterback, Backup, Easy Things

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• Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.

  Sarah Palin

  Party, Government, Games

  Sarah Palin's speech as Running Mate of John McCain in Dayton, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com.

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• It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Real, Prohibition, Torah

  Jewish Chronicle (p. 22), October 11, 2013.

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• It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Death, Children, Trying

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Anxiety, Bears, Circumstances

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?

  Chris Carrabba

  Waiting, Tailors, Lovers

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• The traditional American husband and father had the responsibilities-and the privileges-of playing the role of primary provider. Sharing that role is not easy. To yield exclusive access to the role is to surrender some of the potential for fulfilling the hero fantasy-a fantasy that appeals to us all. The loss is far from trivial.

  Faye J Crosby

  Husband, Father, Hero

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• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, Meaning Of Life

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

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• The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Progress, Shapes, Messy

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• I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.

  Robby Gordon

  Sorry, Two, Race

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• I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.

  Liu Dan

  Artist, History, Historical

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• Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Thinking, Choices, Suffering

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• It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

  Dick Couch

  Dick Couch (2012). “Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger”, p.151, Penguin

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• It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

  Dele Momodu

  Envelopes, Brown, Journalist

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• Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Preference, Conform

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Architecture, Forget, Enjoy

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• When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Boys, People, Accomplishment

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Never Settle, Action, Settling

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• Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Running, Believe

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• It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Real, Opportunity

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• You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Forever, Mind

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• Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Philosophy, World

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