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If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

~Dirk Benedict

Topics: Difficulty Entire Forever Free Lives Miss Our Our Lives Point Sorrow Then Until Wait

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I had difficulty working for other people.

~Don Cornelius

Topics: Difficulty Had Other People Working

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My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

~Donald Hall

Topics: About Age Balance Death Difficulty Down Fret Knee Lack Old Old Age Problem Sitting Standing Standing Up Up

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Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: Difficulty Does Error Greater Grows Historian Intensive Ironically Material More Mountain Possibility Research

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Jasmine, the name of which signifies fragrance, is the emblem of delicacy and elegance. It is reared with difficulty in New England, but at the South, puts forth all its graces.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Delicacy Difficulty Elegance England Forth Fragrance Graces Jasmine Name New New England Puts South Which

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There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Actor Almost Chief Conspicuous Difficulty Egotistical Great Impossible Must Present Really Seem Self Subjects Think Where Writing I Think

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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Been Conversation Different Difficulty Explained Had Late Most Mostly Trees Very Which

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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

~Edgar Degas

Topics: Difficulty Everyone Fifty Talent Twenty-Five

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Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Connect Deeply Difficulty Even Feel Fully Inspire Links Listeners Many Meant More Notorious Odd Off Others People Poetry Put Readers Terms Them Themselves Vocabulary

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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

~Edward R. Murrow

Topics: Accepts Difficulty Excuse History Never

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