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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

~Epictetus

Topics: Difficulty Gain Glory Greater More Pilots Reputation Skillful Storms

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Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: After Difficulty Events Foreign Given Information Iraq Like Military Mistakes Place Policy Reliable Unpredictability

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The majority of the world - including myself - we all have problems and difficulty in life, and life's messy. But there are great rewards in life, too.

~Eric Close

Topics: Difficulty Great Including Life Majority Messy Myself Problems Rewards Too World

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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Anything Difficulty Empty Forcing Head Hence Really Rubbish Stuffed

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As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.

~Ernest Walton

Topics: Arises Difficulty Due Faster Increase Increases Mass Particle Particles Produced Size

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Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: Book Difficulty Either Fear First Hit Ignorance Kind Labor Realize Second Sort Stride Then You Your

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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

~Evangelista Torricelli

Topics: Any Argued Claim Claims Difficulty Does Easily Exist Exists Know Many Nature Only Others Resistance Spite Vacuum Who Without

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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

~Everett Dirksen

Topics: About Alarm Basic Business Difficulty Easily Embrace Expansion Express Federal How Power Remains Still Which Wish I Wish

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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

~F. Murray Abraham

Topics: Capturing Difficulty Film Surprise

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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: Alone Beauty Daily Difficulty Familiar Hope Like Notebook Place Poems Reading Record Someone Struggle Would

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