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This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

~David Lange

Topics: About Become Cannot Difficulty Involvement New New Zealand Now Speak Talking Without You Zealand

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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

~David Whyte

Topics: Afraid Artificial Average Difficulty Discourse Human Human Life Life More Narratives Outer Poetry Present Province Realistic Than Truthful

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It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

~David Whyte

Topics: Allowing Appearances Difficulty Gifted Human Human Life Informed Liberating Life Living Losses Might More Much Participation Present Think Witness

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In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

~David Whyte

Topics: About Anything Charismatic Difficulty Forms Germany Great Leadership Smack Talk You

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I think that part of the difficulty of being a celebrity is that you may have to hide what you're feeling and you aren't totally allowed to be yourself, because you're in the public eye.

~Deborah Ann Woll

Topics: Allowed Be Yourself Because Being Celebrity Difficulty Eye Feeling Hide May Part Public Public Eye Think Totally You Yourself I Think

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I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

~Dennis Ritchie

Topics: Any Control Definition Difficulty Discussion Fate Ill Inventors Keep Language Languages Making Matter Mention Open Recall Tight Tried Whose

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The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.

~Denny Rehberg

Topics: Access Attempt Difficulty Do The Right Thing Education Give Good Good Thing Grants Grows Help Higher Higher Education Low-Income Most Need Often Opportunity Program Right Right Thing Student Successful The Right Thing Thing Those Times Welfare A Good Thing

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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Act Always Any Belief Believe Difficulty Expresses Greek Myth Play Plays Problem Question Reality Serious Think Tragic Which You I Think

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The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

~Diane Abbott

Topics: Commons Difficulty Getting Government Honest Massacre Propose Still Through Truth Truth Is Were Would

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That's the difficulty with free-kicks, as you get one, maybe two, and that's why it's tough. You have to score.

~Dimitri Payet

Topics: Difficulty Get Maybe Score Tough Two Why You

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