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• Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

  Gucci Mane

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

  Michael Jackson

  Past, Achievement, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Father, Character

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Avant Garde, Firsts, Life Is

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 14, 1889.

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• It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

  Dore Ashton

  Intellect, Painter, Historian

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• Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Practice, Mystery, Pleasure

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• It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

  David Chipperfield

  Design, Morality, Oneself

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• Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.

  Irvin Kershner

  Joy, Idiot, Life Is

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• I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.

  Don Everly

  Brother, Grieving, Wife

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• When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

  Kay Arthur

  Waiting, Want, Life Is

  Kay Arthur (2009). “Lord, Where Are You When Bad Things Happen?: A Devotional Study on Living by Faith”, p.225, WaterBrook

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• The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

  Lisa Alther

  Romantic Love, Requirements, Dodge

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• It is very difficult to stop feeling.

  Russell Edson

  Feelings

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• Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Simple, Issues, Decision

  "Cities bear the brunt of air pollution - they can also solve it" by Leo Hollis, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2014.

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• We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

  Tom Chatfield

  Miracle, Age, Texture

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

  Emraan Hashmi

  Acting, Tasks, Sometimes

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• It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

  Horace

  Speak, Universal

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, Line 128, c. 18 BC.

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• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.

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• Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult.

  Peter Drucker

  Leisure, Easy, Loafing

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.238, Routledge

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• It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Intelligent, People

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• Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

  Thomas Szasz

  Passivity Is, Roles, World

  "The Second Sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kings, Views, Two

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophy, Silly, Law

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Pain, Taken

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hands, Two, Soul

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight". The Kenyon Review, 1943.

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• The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Discovery, Doe

  Bertrand Russell (1935). “Religion and science”

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