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• One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

  Elia Kazan

  Sound, Directors, Finals

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.

  Tom Shroder

  Shining, Serious, Masters

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• One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Character, Thinking, Would Be

  "Producer Barbara Broccoli Talks EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: THE UNTOLD STORY OF 007, Daniel Craig, SKYFALL Deleted Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  Barton Seaver

  Space, Age, Needs

  "Sustainable Grilling With Barton Seaver". Interview with Esther Sung, www.epicurious.com. May 21, 2013.

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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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• It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

  Reginald Rose

  Boys, Hands, Talking

  Reginald Rose (2006). “Twelve Angry Men”, p.19, Penguin

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• Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

  Laurence Overmire

  People, Dead People, Hard

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  Dan Buettner

  Beautiful, Garden, Yield

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• There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

  Craig Childs

  Two, Desert, Way

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• The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Strong, Hard Work, Leader

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• The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

  Tahir Shah

  Believe, Islam, Followers

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• Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Men, Thinking, Taste

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• The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

  David Plotz

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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• The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

  Johnny Depp

  Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Break A Leg, Climbing, Long

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• It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

  John le Carre

  Luck, Here And There, Forget

  The Looking-Glass War (1965). It's not so easy to forget that le Carre's intelligence is, well, fiction.

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• I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Son, Thinking

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• He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Father, Judging, Mind

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• Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.

  George R. R. Martin

  Leadership, Wise, Kings

  "George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sloth, Laziness, Difficult

  Benjamin Franklin (2011). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Including Poor Richard's Almanac, and Familiar Letters”, p.224, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Self, Cities

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.55, tredition

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• Whenever I hear about a child needing something, I ask myself, 'Is it what he needs or what he wants?' It isn't always easy to distinguish between the two. A child has many real needs which can and should be satisfied. His wants are a bottomless pit. He wants, for example, to sleep with his parents. He needs to be in his own bed. At Christmas he wants every toy advertised on television. He needs only one or two.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Real, Sleep

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• Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

  Aristotle

  Baby, Speech, Hard

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• If the subject's easy we may all be wise;
  What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

  Ovid

  Wise, Wisdom, May

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