"It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them."
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"Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of."
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"Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals."
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"Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult."
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"It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something."
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"In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song."
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"Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult."
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"I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it."
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"[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say."
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"I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me."
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"If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it."
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"It's not that difficult to win. It's more difficult to win consistently and stay on top."
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"I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately."
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"Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway."
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"When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not."
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"The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them."
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"Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live."
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"Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it."
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"I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up."
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"After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it."
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