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• There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

  Zhuangzi

  Grateful, Opportunity, Ice

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• Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Fall, Dark

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• God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Clothes, House, Mind

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• Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Writing, Tired

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• You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.

  Michael Peterson

  Sadness, Cry, Bartender

  Song: When the Bartender Cries

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• Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Years, Good Coaches

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• Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Children, War, Kids

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

  Ian Mcewan

  Cities, Terrorist Groups, Energy

  "Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Pits Spy Vs. Scribe". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 10, 2012.

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• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Shooting, Suits, Kind

  "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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• The trouble with women? Elbows.

  Michael Caine

  Women, Elbows

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• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Topics, Scholar, Clear

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner

  Tree, Scar, Youth

  Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

  Susie Orbach

  Jobs, Children, Kids

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

  Maureen Reagan

  Taken, Unique, Media

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• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

  Evan Davis

  Luxury, Healthy, Elements

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• I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

  Matt Damon

  Fun, Character, Sleep

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

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• Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

  MyAnna Buring

  Men, Innocent Man, Causes

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• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Teacher, Dad, Reading

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Our World, People

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• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  Samantha Bee

  Party, Anxiety Disorder, Shy

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• I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Thinking, Care, Comic

  "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

  Chris Christie

  Government, People, Demand

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