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Difficulty Quotes
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."
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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."
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"Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing."
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"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
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"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
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"The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases."
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"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
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"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
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"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
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"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
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"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."
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"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."
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"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."
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"When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population."
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"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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"It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties."
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"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."
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"I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it."
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"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved."
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"I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation."
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"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
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"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."
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"What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it."
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"There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted."
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
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"It's not so easy... it's not possible."
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"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."
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"No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this."
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