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“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy.”

Men Made Facts Easy Chance Moral Support Wife He Man Becoming Difficulty Response Practicals Attractive Assumption Enthusiastic Polygamy

Book:The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

Source: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

“Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.”

People Men Years May Stills Ideas States Black President United United States Novel Possibility He Man Becoming Majors Difficulty 1960s Memes Becoming President

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.”

Stories Eye Joy Pleasure Loneliness Becoming Difficulty Contagious

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.”

Ifs Way White Becoming Difficulty Blind Train Convince Receiving Impossibility Outlets Alleys

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.”

Inspirational Firsts Running Friendship Challenges Marriage Air Fine Becoming Difficulty Wine Accomplish Bread Accomplishment Daily Life Ordeals Staples Daily Bread

Book:Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete

Source: Strides: Running Through History with an Unlikely Athlete

“The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.”

Source: The Secret Daily Teachings

“My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.”

Becoming Tasks Difficulty Increase Delicate Becoming More

Author:Jean Moulin

“The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.”

Men Becoming Doctors Difficulty Medicine Patient Horizontal

Author:Shana Alexander

“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”

Life Easy Difficult Change Inspirational Life Depends Becoming Gratitude Difficulty Oneself Changing Your Life Adjustment Difficult Life Thinking Flexibly

Author:Morarji Desai