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“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”

Hard Problem Easy Interesting Numbers Subjects Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics Large Numbers

Author:Willis Lamb

“What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”

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Author:Boris Sidis

“I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.”

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Author:James Nesbitt

“If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.”

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Author:Ovid

“Were you to converse with a king, you ought to be as easy and unembarrassed as with your own valet-de chambre; but yet every look,word, and action should imply the utmost respect.... You must wait till you are spoken to; you must receive, not give, the subject of conversation, and you must even take care that the given subject of such conversation do not lead you into any impropriety.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.”

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Book:When Heaven Invades Earth

Source: When Heaven Invades Earth

“Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.”

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Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms of sex and scatological references and so on, therefore, you should do it. So they all limit themselves to these subjects and this vocabulary. My objection is that it is a lack of articulateness. Irreverence is easy, but what is hard is wit. Wit is what these comedians lack.”

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Author:Tom Lehrer

“Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.”

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Book:ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

Source: ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

“History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.”

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Author:Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.”

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Author:Gisele Freund