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“To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.”

Easy Break Impossible Married Bread Host Betray Salt Covenant Comrade Matrimony Married Women Disloyal

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.”

Humans Enough Asks Easy Friendship Love Is Impossible Materials Sight Endure Absurd Ask Me Human Love Without Friends

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.”

Art Whole Easy Pleasure Impossible Style Genius Speech Composition Disguise Utility Recognise Ingenious Plagiarism Orators

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.”

People Ifs Should Easy Cases Impossible Appreciate Privilege Mediums Addresses Accurate Multitudes Discourse Scientific Knowledge

Book:Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

Source: Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek

“The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.”

Easy Difficult Impossible Behavior Features Outstanding Precision

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”

Easy Enemy Impossible Defeat Oneself Crush Enemy Within

Book:Musashi

Source: Musashi

“The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.”

“prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.”

Knows Real Would Be Spirituality Courses Easy Prayer Impossible Praying Becoming Substitutes Do You Know Kinder Good Place

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”

Easy Impossible Blame Injustice Proof Infamous

Book:Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...

Source: Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...

“It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.”

Easy Impossible Honest Being Honest

Book:The Cow

Source: The Cow

“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”

“Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.”

Easy Brain Impossible Complexes Hacks

Author:Keith Barry

“... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.”

Writing Looks Littles Problem Easy Impossible Inherent Nothing Is Easy

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.”

Mind Body Fear Easy Four Impossible Greed Poison Foolishness Infatuation Arrows Shields Egoism Darts

Author:Albert Camus

“Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible”

Easy Difficult Impossible Very Good

Author:Constantine Manos

“I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.”

Thinking Book Easy Impossible Damn Bookstores Easy To Get

Author:Larry Winget

“Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.”

Easy Impossible Achieve This Life

Author:James May

“Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.”

Easy Decision Impossible Judging Easy To Judge

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“The global supply of oil is going to decline because we've used up a good deal of the easy-to-get oil. We're going to reach a point in the not-too-distant future when it is impossible to keep increasing the daily supply.”

Used Easy Deals Impossible Oil Decline Easy To Get

Author:Michael Klare

“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”

Knows Seems Easy Power Impossible Catholic Obedience Discipleship Possible And Impossible Achieving The Impossible

Book:The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

“Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It is very difficult, perhaps impossible, to be violent to someone we think of as an equal, someone we have empathy with, but it is very easy to abuse a thing”

Thinking Firsts Humans Persons Easy Difficult Human Beings Steps Violence Impossible Objects Equal Empathy Abuse Violent First Steps

Book:Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

Source: Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising

“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.”

People America Easy Simple Impossible Overcoming Difficulty Arise Deceived Dictionary

Book:From the Earth to the moon (low cost). Limited edition

Source: From the Earth to the moon (low cost). Limited edition

“Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.”

Easy Impossible Elegant

Author:Moshe Feldenkrais

“Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.”

Source: Aristotle: the art of rhetoric

“If you're too close to events, you lose perspective. It is not easy to be fair with the facts and keep your own convictions out of the picture. It is almost impossible to be both a participant in the events and their observer, witness, interpreter.”

Ifs Facts Easy Loses Impossible Events Perspective Fairs Conviction Witness Observers Participants Interpreter

Author:Micha Bar-Am

“We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.”

Trying Littles Hands Bigs Easy Impossible Big Things Easy Things

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis

“It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you'll see there the radical evil that's associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States about any other religious or ethnic group.”

States Culture Evil Easy Religious United United States Issues Impossible Groups Islam Radical Republic Generalization Depraved Ethnic Groups

Author:Edward Said

“Cultures are not very easy to change. They're sometimes almost impossible to change.”

Sometimes Culture Easy Impossible

Author:Jason Kilar

“Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.”

Ifs Feels Mind Moments Body Fall Easy Practice Impossible Tree Crazy Circumstances Happenings Breaths Legs Your Body Burning Stability Observing Mind And Body Going Crazy

Author:Tara Stiles

“What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.”

“One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.”

Should Easy Impossible Virtuous Virtuous Life

Author:Anthony the Great

“Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.”