"Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy."
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"You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
"To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy."
"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."
"Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow."
"Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like."
"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
"Take it easy, but take it."
"It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours."
"There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy."
"To understand is difficult; to act is easy."
"it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone"
"Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."
"You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work."
"Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left."
"Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible."
"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow."
"You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective."
"The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility."
"If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself."
"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."