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• The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

  Herbert Schiller

  Growing Up, Impact, Keys

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Emotional, Numbers

  Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

  Flora Thompson

  Country, Traffic, Heavy

  "Dashpers". Unfinished novel by Flora Thompson. Chapter Two: "A House is Built", 1942.

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• It's not difficult to make money - it's different.

  Marshall Sylver

  Different, Making Money

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• The time has come when we must take an unyielding stand. We must shore up our spiritual underpinnings, listen to the prophets of God, and follow their counsel.Said Paul to Timothy: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.” (2 Timothy 1:7-8.)It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, the Lord will strengthen us and help us choose the right during more difficult times.

  W. Craig Zwick

  Spiritual, Choices, Mind

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• This is not a museum of tragedy. It is not the museum of difficult moments. It is the museum that says -here is a balanced history of America that allows us to cry and smile.

  Lonnie Bunch

  Tragedy, Cry, Moments

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• I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

  Bertrand Russell

  Lonely, Hate, World

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• Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honesty, Integrity, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.

  Brother Lawrence

  Jesus, Humble, Paradise

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• My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

  Hans Rosling

  Rights, Data, Numbers

  "Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool". Interview with Claire Provost, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

  John Carmack

  Games, Use, Want

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• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  Barry Eisler

  Quality, Want, Argument

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• To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

  Bernard Kouchner

  People, World, Helping

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• They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

  Diana Rigg

  Careers, Ready, Profession

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• What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.

  Scott Joplin

  Real, Player, Light

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• I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

  Harvey Keitel

  Struggle, Hard Work, Thinking

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• I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Jobs, Acting, Lessons

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• The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

  Neil Jordan

  Children, Fantasy, Horror

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• Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

  Uma Thurman

  Fun, Challenges, Extraordinary

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• It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours.

  Vince McMahon

  Flying, Six, Hours

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• Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Independent, Leader

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• Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Practice

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• The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Buddhism, America

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• How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

  Hesiod

  Light, Literature, Bears

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• Mysticism is the hidden way. It is the most difficult to discuss, because it involves the exploration of perceptual states which are difficult to describe in words.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Exploration, States

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