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• We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school, we have the goal of graduation and degrees. Our total existence is goal-oriented. We must have goals to make progress, encouraged by keeping records . . . as the swimmer or the jumper or the runner does . . . Progress is easier when it is timed, checked, and measured. . . .Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Believe, School, Keys

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• Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

  Aaron Swartz

  Reality, Get Better, Stuff

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• Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

  Jack White

  Home, Creativity, Fighting

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• Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.

  Phil Jackson

  Sweet, Next Day, Victory

  "Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior". Book by Phil Jackson, October 1, 1995.

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• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

  John Holdren

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Why Are We Still Listening to Progressives About the Environment?" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

  Vasily Grossman

  Memories, People, Would Be

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• We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

  Pat Robertson

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "US Christian extremist branded a terrorist". "AM" with Tony Eastley, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

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• If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Ocean, Men, Might

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• Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Government, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• Let the Truth be known, no ship is unsinkable. The bigger the ship, the easier it is to sink her. I learned long ago that if you design how a ship'll sink, you can keep her afloat. I proposed all the watertight compartments and the double hull to slow these ships from sinking. In that way, you get everyone off. There's time for help to arrive, and the ship's less likely to break apart and kill someone while she's going down.

  Thomas Andrews

  Long Ago, Design, Hull

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• It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Linux

  "How Microsoft conquered China" by David Kirkpatrick, archive.fortune.com. July 17, 2007.

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• It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

  Steve Wozniak

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, Important, Investing

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• I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.82, She Winked Press

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• It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Vanity, Odds

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2008). “Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 1928-1931”

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• But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.

  George Berkeley

  Garden, Tree, Parks

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• Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  Karen Bass

  Rocks

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• It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Play, Want, Emotion

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Discovery, Littles

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

  Henry Ford

  Hard Work, Past, Management

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• Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

  Frank Ocean

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• President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'

  Heber J. Grant

  President, Sometimes, Waldo Emerson

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• When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.

  George Muller

  Sight, Long, Doe

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• The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Vocabulary

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.130, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It’s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban.

  Steve Spurrier

  Winning, Championship, Asks

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