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“I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.”

Has Beens Difficult Tasks Careful Be Careful Say Anything Difficult Tasks

Book:The Portable Mark Twain

Source: The Portable Mark Twain

“A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.”

“A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.”

Needs Difficult Situation Humour Careful Assets Sympathetic Difficult Situations

Book:The House of Commons at Work

Source: The House of Commons at Work

“Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.”

Ifs Sometimes Facts Difficult Loses Dangerous Danger Embrace Careful Invisible Turning 50

Author:Dawn French

“Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all.”

Needs Difficult Building Materials Stones Structure Careful Architecture Block Falsehood Rude Rotten Adjustment

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.”

Source: The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror

“New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.”

Fighting Difficult Technology Sea Produce Demand Deserve Victim Careful Dry Convince Pirate Drains New Technology Abolition Copyright Weakening Navigation Sophistry

Author:Mark Helprin