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"The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . ."	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."	Michael Leuning
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Abraham Lincoln
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."	Sophia Loren
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."	Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things."	Niccolo Machiavelli
"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."	Og Mandino
"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."	Horace Mann
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."	André Maurois
"To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed."	Phyllis McGinley
"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?"	George Stanley McGovern
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."	Alfred A. Montapert
"The difficulty in life is the choice."	George Moore
"Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles."	Joe Moore
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"All things are difficult before they are easy."	John Norley
"To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."	Oscar Wilde
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."	Edmund Burke
"Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering."	Ambrose Bierce
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Abraham Lincoln	Aesop	Albert Einstein
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