Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
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George Santayana
Philosopher, Poet
"It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig."
Philip Roth
Novelist
"I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists."
Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall."
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"It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all."
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"When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not."
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"For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love."
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"As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else."
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"Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of."
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"When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier."
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"Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge."
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"If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not."
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"The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is."
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"It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child."
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"Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between."
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"If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life."
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"It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes."
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"The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises."
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"It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues."
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"It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier."
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"It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar."
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"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier."
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"It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself."
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"It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over."
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