"These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder."
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"We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems."
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"Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?"
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"Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof."
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"The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times"
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"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
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"Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else."
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"In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for."
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"I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality."
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"I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times."
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"The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period."
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"The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy."
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"Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?"
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"I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing."
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"During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks."
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"Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other."
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"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
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"the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up."
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"It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going."
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"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."
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