"It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
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"To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult."
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Puberty was definitely difficult for me."
"It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves."
"Language is a very difficult thing to put into words."
"I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me"
"Intimacy is a difficult art."
"Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve."
"It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good."
"It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations."
"Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing."
"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks."
"Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination."
"Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious."
"There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things."
"If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear."
"It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy."
"When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value."
"Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future."