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“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”

Humans Government Given Difficult Support Pieces Imagine Particular Dignity Bills Human Life Ministers Brown Prime Legislation Prime Minister Sanctity

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.”

Jobs Difficult Pieces Happened Politician Legislation Catchy Slapping Acronyms Jumpstart

Author:Steven Rattner

“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Should Firsts Difficult Party Pieces Directors Bases Appearance Impression Chosen Conductor Containing First Date

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.”

Difficult Money Pieces Nice Cost Bigger Lots Of Money Being Nice

Author:Damien Hirst

“...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and second, add some new piece of knowledge to the world each day.”

Thinking World Firsts Two Difficult Pieces Masters Add Insight Two Things Each Day This Day Buried

Author:Edwin Land

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.”

Feels Matter Age Difficult Effort Pieces Advice Taught Mom No Matter What My Mom Keep Going Persevere Most Inspiring This Too Shall Pass

Author:Liya Kebede

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.”

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Author:Cathy Ladman

“When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.”

Difficult Pieces Balls Crafts Tennis Tricky Lizards Tennis Balls

Author:Marc Webb

“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”

Humans Whole Bits Difficult Moral Pieces Special Taste Workshops Mosaics Carpentry

Author:Eliza Lynn Linton

“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”

Long Home Difficult Pieces Adventure Fit Distance Hiking Puzzles Trails Trekking Long Distance Mountain Climbing Hiking In The Mountains Backpacking Returning Home

Book:Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada

Source: Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada

“I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.”

Writing Home Light Difficult Fiction Fantasy Pieces Entertainment Mindset Coming Home Nonfiction

Author:Cassandra Clare