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Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
Jules Verne
Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
Jimmy Chin
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Language is always burdened by thought.


Terrance Hayes
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I just write mechanical things.


Barry Zito
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Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.


Dick Cavett
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.


Sarah Churchwell
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
John Sherman Cooper
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot
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I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.


Josef Albers
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.


Beverly Sills
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.


Warren Farrell
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.


Winston Churchill
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The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.


Joel Salatin
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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.


Louis Pasteur
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.


Carl Jung
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I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.


Bob Weinstein
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I've always had difficulties with female characters.


John le Carre
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
Peter Jackson
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You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?
Leonard Susskind
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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?


Benjamin Franklin