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• The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

  David F. Houston

  Important, May, Wheat

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• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Views, Simplicity

  Design Museum Interview, designmuseum.org. 2007.

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• The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.

  H. L. Mencken

  Pride, Men, Vanity

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• Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

  Isocrates

  Ears, Way, Leisure

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics

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• Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

  David Geffen

  Lying

  "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.

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• Victory over all the circumstances of life comes not by might, nor by power, but by a practical confidence in God and by allowing His Spirit to dwell in our hearts and control our actions and emotions. Learn in the days of ease and comfort, to think in terms of the prayer that follows, so that when the days of hardship come you will be fully prepared and equipped to meet them.

  Eric Liddell

  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

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• In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

  Peter Lynch

  Commitment, Divorce, Romance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Prayer, Spring, Lying

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• In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Culture, Manners, Social

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• Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. [...] To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.

  George Polya

  Attitude, Opportunity, Opposites

  George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

  Tina Brown

  Answers, Manners, Ability

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• There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

  Jeremy Collier

  Reason, Certainty, Insufficiency

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.105

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• The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Wish, Fundamentals

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

  Boyd Rice

  Sex, Men, Errors

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• Set realistic goals short and long term.
  2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body.
  3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit.
  4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully.
  5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption.
  6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.

  Dave Draper

  Perseverance, Commitment, Thoughtful

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• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  Cal Thomas

  Elderly, Pressure, Financial

  "Death of Terri Schiavo ... Threatens Us All" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2005.

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• A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

  Mika

  Taken, Men, Decision

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• Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Equality, Men

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• Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.

  Terence Conran

  Home, Heart, Creativity

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• What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

  Joko Beck

  Life, Beautiful, Couple

  "Nothing Special". Book by Charlotte J. Beck, ‎Steven A. Smith, 2009.

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Reading, Writing

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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• Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Deceit, Guilty, Deceiving

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.147

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