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“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”

Ifs Want Use Hands Left Practice Masters Overcoming Difficulty Constant Insignificant Adapted Left Hand

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.”

Firsts Heart Mean Left Term Water Results Trouble Sky Regret Difficulty Disappointment Burning Fewer Smooth Presidency

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.”

Children Hands Seems Left Deals Trouble Particular Difficulty Manage Goodwill

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“The greatest difficulty we have faced is the neocolonial way of thinking that exists in this country. We were colonized by a country, France, that left us with certain habits. For us, being successful in life, being happy, meant trying to live as they do in France, like the richest of the French.”

Thinking Way Trying Country Certain Left Successful Habit Difficulty France Being Successful Way Of Thinking

Author:Thomas Sankara

“Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.”

Men Long Problem Bigs Left Given Attention Careers Pieces Exercise Overcoming Difficulty Illness Absence Thrown Flats Frank Initiative Big Things Subordinates Turning Points

Author:B. C. Forbes

“She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.”

Giving Book Feelings Lasts Reading Left Water Written Fine Difficulty Sentences Dancer Hollow Finishing Book Reading Written Word Swimmer Indigestion

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“As a storyteller, you also don't want to make people feel like they're left out, like other people who have read the book have an interior knowledge of this show, and the degree of difficulty in watching it is much higher.”

People Want Feels Book Shows Left Higher Degrees Difficulty Storyteller Interiors Left Out

Author:Damon Lindelof

“One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.”

People Needs America Faces Spirituality Left Religious Mass Difficulty Profound Acknowledge Reaching Reach Out Disrespect Religious Life

Author:Bell Hooks

“Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.”

Left Difficult Difficulty Heartbroken Delayed Alphas Deployment

Author:Gail Carriger

“We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.”

Knows Way Needs Feels Wells Left Prayer Safe Difficulty Prerequisites

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.”

Heart Problem Pain Left Determination Difficulty Solve Loyalty Pursue Resolution Gave Up Undertakings Constancy

Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.”

World Way Needs Home Left Nations Democracy Clear Building Crosses Difficulty Prosperity Socialist Hesitation Maintenance There Comes A Time Building Up Which Way To Go

Book:Speeches, June 1964-May 1965

Source: Speeches, June 1964-May 1965

“In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.”

“The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.”

Thinking Problem Spiritual Left Common Difficulty Instinct Deny Dimensions Movie Business Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Michael Medved