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“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

Years Long Stills War States Government Difficult Effort Conflict Contrary Outcomes Civil War Anarchy Spinning Valiant Spinning Out Of Control

Author:Anthony Zinni

“Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.”

Thinking Asks Difficult Difficult Questions

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.”

Ifs Difficult Enemy Class Let Me Add Propaganda Marxist Lacan

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.”

Would Be Strong Difficult Groups Offers Evidence Program Mental Health Profession Therapy Sentiments Units Prevailing Small Groups Efficacy Adequacy Group Therapy

Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

“This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.”

Firsts Kind Able Desire Difficult Realizing My Own Secret Special Particular Individuality Painful Critical Wander Internals Host Intercourse Accuracy Volition Vividness

Book:Star Maker

Source: Star Maker

“Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.”

Difficult Situation Democracy Majority Inequality Wealthy Oligarchy Majority Rule

Book:The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century

Source: The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century

“Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.”

People Ifs Want Reality Fun Difficult Subjects Dying Findings Phones Here I Am Greatest Fear Difficult Subjects

Author:Sara Quin

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.”

“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.”

Way Language Difficult Come Up Things To Do Enterprise New Ways Cliche Describing Difficult Things

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”

Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is formed slowly, but it preserves every principle which it has once acquired; it grows and strengthens itself incessantly in the midst of the many variations and errors of the human mind. It's chief attribute is clearness; it has no marks to express confused notations. It brings together phenomena the most diverse, and discovers the hidden analogies which unite them.”

Source: The Analytical Theory of Heat

“In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.”

World Years Lasts America Difficult Poverty Worry Struggle Focus Europe Focused Around The World Gas Hardship Last Year Filling Tanks Pumps Gasoline

Author:Robert Zoellick

“It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.”

Want Self Difficult Gone Kings Lear

Author:Paul Scofield

“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.”

Literature Difficult Loses Ability Critics Critical Complexity Proportion Poetry Is Interpretation Provoking Richness Evaluate

Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Way Feels Firsts Looks Two Real Beautiful Certain Difficult Clear Four Mystery Shapes Moon Objectives Awful Tonight Unreasonable Geometric Geometric Shapes

Author:William Baziotes

“Although we are aware that North Korea is attaching importance to the liquidation of the past, that is difficult unless there is progress over the abduction issue.”

Past Difficult Issues Progress Importance Korea North Korea Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“I want them (the North Korean delegation) to understand that it would be difficult to see progress of the normalization talks unless we see their sincerity over the abduction, nuclear and missile issues.”

Want Would Be Difficult Issues Progress Nuclear Sincerity North Korea Missiles Korean North Korean Delegation Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.”

Ifs Ends Difficult Judging Bangs Ammunition

Author:Carl Douglas

“Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.”

People Ifs Needs Stills Different Difficult Sells Frightened Gallery Need A Change

Author:Catherine Yass

“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.”

Art Eye Difficult Four Painting Art Is Difficulty Corners Backgrounds Difficult Things

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

“Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.”

People Doe Two Sometimes Seems Faith Difficult Assuming Paint Painter

Author:Mary Pratt

“It is most difficult to acquire the, how shall I say? the 'depth' of a subject in composition in silhouette.”

Difficult Subjects Depth Acquire Composition Silhouettes

Author:Ugo Mochi

“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Important Book Sometimes Humanity Difficult Journey Findings Where You Stand

Author:Chris Abani

“Just for the record, I'm in favor of drug testing EVERY year just as long as it's a level playing field. The problem arises that a lot of these substances are hard to detect. So, it's very difficult to have true, drug-free bodybuilding competition, especially on the professional level.”

Years Long Hard Problem Difficult Levels Records Fields Drug Competition Favors Arise Substance Testing Bodybuilding Playing Fields Level Playing Field Drug Free Drug Testing

Author:Lee Labrada

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.”

Firsts Language Difficult Steps Study First Steps

Book:Language

Source: Language

“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.”

“A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don’t care about.”

Want Firsts Book Problem Care Faces Difficult Challenges Interesting Audience Don't Care Difficult Challenges

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.”

People Difficult Church Responsibility Situation Leader Accepting Possibility Circumstances Weak Blame Difficult Situations Church Leaders Weak Leaders

Book:Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

Source: Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap

“In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.”

Turns Difficult Hours Known Valuable Yesterday Eras Commodity Harbors

Book:On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

“The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .”

Wells Difficult Goal Abortion Accomplished Wade Roe V Wade

Author:Ellen Willis

“Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.”

Difficult Newspapers Enlightening Educator Editorials

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.”

Desire Suffering Individual Given Difficult Goal Natural Effects Truth Is Expectations Ethics Absolutes Notion Determine Pursue Ethical Disposition Absolute Truth

Author:Dalai Lama

“In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.”

People Knows Long Has Beens Made Two Facts Three Difficult Class Strange Long Time Hollywood Structure Strange Places

Author:Alan Arkin

“But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Order Left Difficult Successful Cutting Focused Profession Driven Personal Relationships Becoming Successful

Author:Nathan Lane

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

Thinking World Life Motivational Action Easy Difficult Acting Initiative Difficult Things Thoughts And Actions

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Shevchenko is the best attacker in Europe. He has a great deal of consistency and he just keeps scoring - which in Italian football is very difficult. He is a complete player, someone who can do everything on a football field.”

Difficult Can Do Deals Player Fields Football Europe Italian Consistency Football Field

Author:Andriy Shevchenko

“The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.”

Problem Difficult Scientific Knowledge

Author:Jack Steinberger

“The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.”

Stills States Difficult Loss United Party Enemy Expectations Blind Heavy Confusion Bitter Vain Disorder Soviet Closing Disillusionment Unshakable Difficult Days

Author:Lavrentiy Beria

“Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.”

Ideas Language Difficult Depends Arguing Fixed Thinker Possessed Ownership Ruling

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

Ifs Should Trying May Important Running Found Difficult Answers Results Effort Wonder Serious Physics Complexity Fascinating Physicist Ambiguity Perplexity Layman

Author:Edward Condon

“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

Government Politics Easy Difficult

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.”

World Firsts Use Difficult Trouble Weapons Obvious Russia Bombs Atoms Atom Bomb

Author:Karl Donitz

“In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.”

States Choices Force Difficult United United States Financial Legacy Elimination Difficult Choices Reaganomics

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“B17 is becoming more difficult to get because the FDA is cracking down on people dealing with B17 because, after all, doctors don't get any money off of this - it's a vitamin. And they [doctors] make a lot of money when you're sick, they don't make any money when you are well. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.”

People Wells Evil Difficult Becoming Roots Doctors Sick Lots Of Money Becoming More Vitamins Love Of Money Fda Money Is The Root Of All Evil

Author:Kent Hovind

“He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense.”

Men Long Ideas Political Difficult Quality Fronts Brilliant Nonsense Conferences Strategist Good Political

Author:Erich von Manstein

“It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.”

Reality Seems Difficult Elements Fundamentals Details Conviction Manifold

Book:The Path: A New Look At Reality

Source: The Path: A New Look At Reality

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