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“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.”

Different Next Causes Generations Bases Difficulty Opposition Next Generation Previous Generations Repeating History History Repeats Itself Different Generations

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”

Giving Light Pain Causes Danger Weakness Overcoming Difficulty Brave Devotion Endurance Faculty Weariness Earnestness Overcoming Pain

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.”

Philosophy Causes Difficulty Finals Arise Tendencies Explanation Characteristics Visible Spontaneous Metaphysical Abstraction Invoke

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.”

People Men May Suffering Causes Wealth Interesting Common Rich Depends Men And Women Difficulty Theater Bored Enjoyment Boredom Unhappiness Wealthy Idle Earning

Author:Andre Maurois

“It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.”

Mean Matter Body Force Causes Differences Space Effects Particular Argument Difficulty Guides Senses Observation Desperate Cause And Effect

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good.”

Knows Men World Giving Firsts Believe Two Ideas Whole Purpose Universe Causes Existence Difficulty Intention Sake Creator Arise Whole World Ignorant Confusion

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.”

Ifs Causes Fit Aspect Difficulty Appearance Superficial Observers Chins Vanishing Satin

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?”

Facts Moving Given Causes Difficulty Physics Quantum Mechanic Quantum Physics Quantum Mechanics Electrons Velocity Approximation

Book:Gesammelte Werke

Source: Gesammelte Werke

“It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.”

Soul Self Body Suffering Causes Self Love Difficulty Disappointment Anguish Egoism Asceticism Self Centeredness Soul And Body Centeredness

Author:Tito Colliander

“There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.”

Ifs Should Universe Causes Space Impossible Difficulty Another Time

Book:The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

Source: The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: From His Private Notebook

“People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.”

People Problem Causes Emotional Abuse Difficulty Substance

Author:Leigh Steinberg

“The basic cause of all our difficulties is immaturity. That's why I talk so much about peace within ourselves as a step toward peace in our world. If we were mature, war would not be possible and peace would be assured. In our immaturity we do not know the laws of the universe, and we think evil can be overcome by more evil. One symptom of our immaturity is greed, making it difficult for us to learn the simple lesson of sharing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World War Would Be Law Universe Evil Causes Difficult Simple Steps Lessons Overcoming Difficulty Greed Mature Our World Symptoms Assured Immaturity Peace Within

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.”

Thinking World Real Self Lost Causes Forget Greater This World Higher Difficulty Good Things Forget You Higher Self Real Self

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.”

“Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.”

Causes Ignorance Roots Difficulty Root Cause

Author:Plato

“A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got. Everybody got to play to their strengths and was paired up in the right scenarios. It was very fortunate. It was exciting, the whole process. It makes more difficulty in editing 'cause there's more footage, but the guy I had handle it was a documentarian editor for a long time, so it was very useful.”

Long Different Play Whole Guy Causes Easy Process Perfect Long Time Exciting Difficulty Handle Fortunate Different Things Editors Editing Scenarios Really Happy

Author:Matt Walsh

“We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.”

World Suffering Causes Struggle Difficulty Consistent Flats Valleys

Book:Belonging: A Culture of Place

Source: Belonging: A Culture of Place

“When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.”

Giving Action Moving Causes Love Is Family Friends Difficulty Moving Forward Criticize Distress Exploring Bad Times Criticise Salesperson Family Problems

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.”

Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

“The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.”

Feelings Faces Mother Causes Birth Daughter Difficulty Tragedy My Daughter Inability

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can seldom or never make experiments for himself, he has to accept the data of daily experience, and discuss as best he can the relations of a whole group of changes; he cannot, like the physicist, narrow down the issue to the effect of one variation at a time. The problems of statistics are in this sense far more complex than the problems of physics.”

“The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.”

Men Firsts Ideas Ends Names Belief Causes Difficult Space Greater Impossible Eternal All Things Difficulty All Time Description Duration

Book:Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

Source: Paine's Age of Reason, with Remarks, Containing a Vindication of the Doctrines of Christianity from the Aspersions of that Author. By a Citizen of the World [i.e. James Tytler]

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.”

Source: Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

“All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.”

Real Causes Responsibility Difficulty Faults Recognition Stem

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.”

Thinking World Force Causes Term Decision Views Business Difficulty Obsessed Short Term Business World Bad Decision Costco

Author:James Sinegal

“I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.”

Thinking Knows Causes Economy Economic Majors Difficulty Asian Market Economy

Author:Kim Dae-jung