John Locke Quotes
For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.
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Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I was a pretty difficult teenager.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on
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And in the background, behind everything he did or said or thought, like a low hum, was an unyielding sadness, an emotional blackness that threatened to bloom into depression should he pause to examine it.
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I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
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What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.
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The division of the world into two mutually exclusive camps - the City of War and the City of Faith - lies at the heart of Islam's traditional view of existence. Places where Islam rules supreme and its laws are strictly obeyed are known as Dar al-Iman or the City of Faith. The rest of the world is signified under the title of Dar al-Harb or the City of War.
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For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
