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• Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sex, Childhood, Needs

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• One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

  Harvey Mackay

  Things In Life, Individual, Accepting

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• I think the most difficult thing about coming out is just getting to that place where you're comfortable with who you are and you're sayin' hey this is ok and just accepting yourself and not caring what other people think. Because if you don't have that confidence in who you are then, if things don't go the way you wish that they will, you know if people aren't accepting then they can easily tear you down if you're not prepared and comfortable with who you are.

  Wanda Sykes

  Caring, Thinking, People

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• I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

  Ralph Kiner

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.

  Milla Jovovich

  Mom, Growing Up, Thinking

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• . . . the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Ears, Earning, Young

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• Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Men, Political

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• Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

  James Joyce

  Jesus, Men, Religion

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Acceptance, Discovery

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• One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

  E. W. Howe

  Cost, World, Difficult

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• It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, Today, Secrecy

  "During Vietnam, Rumsfeld Criticized Administration For 'Credibility Gap'". The Chicago Tribune Interview, thinkprogress.org. April 13, 1966.

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• What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

  Robin McKinley

  What If, Tasks, Use

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• Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

  Flann O'Brien

  Country, Moderation, Difficult

  Flann O’Brien (2016). “Best of Myles (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

  Daniel Handler

  Regret, Thinking, Years

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• There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, World, Difficult

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• The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Heart, Waiting

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1983). “Meet Yourself in the Psalms”, Victor

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• The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

  Rick McCallum

  People, Way, Stealing

  Source: collider.com

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• A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stories, Reason, Poor

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• One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, People, Life Is

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• I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

  Douglas Adams

  Ideas, Advice, Wish

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• The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

  Mencius

  Men, Afar, Way

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• It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

  David Cronenberg

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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