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“If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.”

Ifs States Seems Might Individual Interest Groups Emotional Activity Resources Organization Difficulty Command Finance Contribution Resorts Compulsion

Book:THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.”

Source: Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems

“Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.”

Ifs Made Trouble Cost Difficulty Instance Coping Love Of Money

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”

Ifs Mind Stills Body Difficulty Coping Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Author:Sophocles

“Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.”

Ifs Men Doe Spirit Walks Path Feet Difficulty Saint Smooth Good Will

Author:John of the Cross

“It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.”

Ifs Life Should Trying May Suffering Difficult Cities Conditions Periods Quiet Difficulty Pressure Rate Bounds Experiments Pace Strain Moderates Fatigue Gears

Author:Robert McCracken

“Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.”

“What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?”

Ifs States Able United United States Clear Messages Weapons Difficulty Endure Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Sanctions

Author:Alan Dershowitz