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"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."	Homer
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."	Horace
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."	Daisaku Ikeda
"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."	Thomas Jefferson
"When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche--grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted--cannot easily receive a lesson."	Roger John
"Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture."	Anandabai Joshee
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."	Carl Gustav Jung
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."	Ryszard Kapuscinski
"What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."	Nikos Kazantzakis
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."	Helen Adams Keller
"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."	John Maynard Keynes
"I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life."	Eli Khamarov
"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction."	Arthur Koestler
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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