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"Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."	John Quincy Adams
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."	Aesop
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."	Walter Anderson
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."	Louis
"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle."	Matthew Arnold
"May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"	Wystan Hugh Auden
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time."	Honoré de Balzac
"Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire."	Honoré de Balzac
"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."	Edward C. Banfield
"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"	Roger Bannister
"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."	(Arthur) Clive
"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need."	Warren G. Bennis
"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."	Proverbs 17:17 Bible
"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."	Josh Billings
"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."	Jim
"Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade."	Jim
"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means."	Lee C. Bollinger
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."	Phyllis Bottome
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."	Nadia Boulanger
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Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alexander Hamilton	Alfred A. Montapert
Ambrose Bierce	Anandabai Joshee	André Maurois
Anne Dudley Bradstreet	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	Arthur Koestler
Author Unknown	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Buddha	B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Caleb Colton	Charlotte Bronte	Chilo
Churton Collins	Confucius	Daisaku Ikeda
Dr. Joyce	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dwight David Eisenhower	Edmund Burke	Edward C. Banfield
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Eli Khamarov	Emmet Fox
Epictetus	Epicurus	E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
Frederick Douglass	General Charles De Gaulle	George Eliot
George Moore	George Stanley McGovern	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Helen Adams Keller	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Peter Brougham	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace	Horace Mann	Isak Dinesen
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jeff Greenfield	Jim
Joe Moore	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Maynard Keynes	John Norley	John Quincy Adams
John W(illiam) Gardner	Joseph Heller	Jose Ortega y Gasset
Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran	Laertius Diogenes
Lee C. Bollinger	Louis	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Marquise du Deffand	Matthew Arnold
Michael Leuning	Miguel de Cervantes	Nadia Boulanger
Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikos Kazantzakis
Og Mandino	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oscar Wilde
Phyllis Bottome	Phyllis McGinley	Proverbs 17:17 Bible
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Frost	Robert Fulghum	Robyn Davidson
Roger Bannister	Roger John	Ryszard Kapuscinski
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren
Stephen William Hawking	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Walter Anderson
Walt(er) Elias Disney	Warren G. Bennis	William Hazlitt
William Shakespeare	William Cullen Bryant	William Ellery Channing
Wystan Hugh Auden	(Arthur) Clive