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• It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Style, Ease

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay (1854). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observation on Their Works”, p.64

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• In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist and sadistic. But this is merely another way of saying that we cannot understand the Bond books without reference to the personality, the outlook and the 'Tory imagination' of the man who wrote them, and to the time in which he wrote them; and that we cannot understand the 1950s and 1960s without some reference to them, and to him.

  David Cannadine

  Book, Men, Imagination

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• Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Block

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• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  A. A. Gill

  Reality, Blood, Hands

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• Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, War, Years

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• We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Thinking, Knowing, Important

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• I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Narrative, Imagine, Instinct

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

  Harvey Keitel

  Responsibility, People, Theatre

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• Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, Mind, Usual

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.12, Prestwick House Inc

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• It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Cities

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• Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.

  George Eliot

  Men, Perception, Mind

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.45, 谷月社

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• The rest of our enquiry is made easy because this God-Creator is openly called Father. Psycho-analysis concludes that he really is the father, clothed in the grandeur in which he once appeared to the small child.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Father, Atheism

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• If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Blood, Atheism, Delight

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

  Garrett Hardin

  Zero, Fall, Abortion

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• They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Girl, Athlete, Golf

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• It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which is what makes the books so amusing. In matter-of-fact, authoritative tones, the authors tell us how plants and human beings exchange energy - or they describe what angels look like, whether or how they're sexed, how they communicate with human beings, and how they differ from ghosts. Readers might be expected to wonder, How do they know?

  Wendy Kaminer

  Book, Angel, Atheism

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• You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Different, Desert

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• Hundreds of thousands of years ago a very powerful civilization lived in what we now call North America. They congregated around power places - interdimensional vortexes where it is very easy to shift from one plane of reality to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Reality

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• A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Vortex

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• It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

  David Duval

  Golf, Winning, Sometimes

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• I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Years, Games

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• The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy.

  Leonard J. Arrington

  Men, Wife, Support

  Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton (1992). “The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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• Action film is really easy to do, you just get in a car and smash through things and it's called action. The real key is what happens between the action when it's quiet. Loud is easy. Quiet, real hard.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Keys, Car

  "Sylvester Stallone Talks Topping THE AVENGERS, the Cast, Using Actors’ “Baggage” as an Advantage, and More on the Set of THE EXPENDABLES 3". Group Interview, collider.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I think your emotion changes from person to person. As you get older, a lot of people become cynical because of the experiences they have had and haven't been able to let go of, whether they've been cheated on or whether it hasn't worked out. It's so easy to turn around right now and say, "Just let it go."

  Alex Pettyfer

  Letting Go, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Taken, Fighting

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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