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"I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."	Robyn Davidson
"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision."	Robyn Davidson
"As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."	General Charles De Gaulle
"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."	General Charles De Gaulle
"The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult."	Marquise du Deffand
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
"I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."	Isak Dinesen
"When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'"	Laertius Diogenes
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. "	Walt(er) Elias Disney
"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."	Frederick Douglass
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."	Thomas Alva Edison
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."	Albert Einstein
"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."	Albert Einstein
"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth."	Albert Einstein
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."	Albert Einstein
"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult."	George Eliot
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Difficulties are things that show what men are."	Epictetus
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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
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	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