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• He will find out the hard way on his birthday that he has got a present he never wanted

  Graham Earl

  Fighting, Way, Wanted

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• We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.

  Bernard Lown

  Children, Issues, Rights

  Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.

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• Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Believe, Hard Work, Memorable

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• At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

  C. S. Lewis

  Drunk, Pet, World

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Jobs, Business

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• Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?

  Drake

  I Miss You, Missing, Mind

  Song: Unforgettable, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Easy writing makes hard reading.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  "Paris Was Our Mistress". Book by Samuel Putnam, 1947.

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• Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

  David Eddings

  Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship

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• Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

  Stephen Leacock

  Writing, Paper, Down And

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• Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

  Patrick Dennis

  Writing, Digging, Harder

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• If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

  Steven Galloway

  Writing, Would Be, Possibility

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• Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.

  Richard North Patterson

  Book, Writing, Simple

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• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  Wallace Stegner

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.158, Modern Library

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• Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Mind, Mechanic

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• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Math, Two

  "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

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• Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

  Marlon Wayans

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

  "Marlon Wayans "A Haunted House" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

  Florence King

  Women, Egalitarianism, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

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• No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.

  Billy Graham

  Morning, Tuesday, Day To Remember

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.

  Barack Obama

  Atmosphere, Truth Is, Pollution

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

  Matt Damon

  Kids, Ethos, Grandparent

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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Grace, Able, Persons

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1588, Moody Publishers

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• To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Hearing, Blind, Figures

  Flannery O'Connor (2012). “Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons”, p.117, Fantagraphics Books

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• You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life for them and their children. And, in the main, they succeeded. It is hard to find any century in history, in which so large a number of people experience so great an improvement in the conditions of their life, in the opportunities open to them, as in the period of the 19th and early 20th century.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no explanation. We can only imagine what purpose lies behind the activities of these quiet, harmlessly cruising objects that time and again approach the Earth. The most likely explanation, it seems to me, is that they are simply watching what we are up to

  Margaret Mead

  Lying, Purpose, Earth

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