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"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."
"It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass."
"The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority."
"It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually."
"It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
"Things come apart much easier than they go together."
"Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them."
"Abstinence is easier than temperance."
"Great changes are easier than small ones."
"A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation."
"It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world."
"It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards."
"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly."
"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
"It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational."
"It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either."
"If this is death, it is easier than life."
"It's all easier said than done, and it isn't even easy to say."
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."