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• Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the working of the courts half a century after, find it difficult to believe that such abuses as are plainly described by the legislation of that year, should really have existed in the middle of the nineteenth century.

  Edward Jenks

  Believe, Men, Years

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.

  Michel Seuphor

  Team, Artist, Fire

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• The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Diagnosis, Status Quo, Clear

  Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, 2013.

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• Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Sad Love, Years, Walking Alone

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• It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Gentleman, Libertine

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• The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Strong, Loneliness, Believe

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”, Touchstone

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• The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.

  Opal Whiteley

  Doe, Matter, Problem

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• I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.

  Iris Origo

  Book, Writing, Achievement

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• In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Work, Way

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• There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Happiness, Home, Ideas

  Lady Caroline Lamb (2009). “The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)”

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• There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

  Gertrude Bell

  Emotion, Visible, Values

  Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.42, I.B.Tauris

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• Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

  Chrystos

  Thinking, Culture, Disease

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• all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Country, Children, Ideas

  Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype

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• Nothing is difficult for the humble.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humble, Humility

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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Sorrow

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• God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

  Patrick Madrid

  Beautiful, Jesus, Teaching

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.21, TAN Books

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• Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Important, Trying, Looks

  "The bestselling author of The Four Agreements talks about his book, The Voice of Knowledge". Amber-Allen Publishing Interview, www.amberallen.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

  Simon Cowell

  Girlfriend, Selfish, Night

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• Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

  Jim Beaver

  Book, Writing, Space

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• Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Novelists, Lines

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Self, Despair

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• It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who are at that point in their lives, but not that many about females.

  Megan Griffiths

  Character, Males, Female

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• In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Believe, Struggle, Destiny

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

  Barack Obama

  Constitution, Made, Founders

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Inteview - WONDER WOMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2009.

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