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		I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Everett Ruess
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Seth Godin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Gauguin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mahatma Gandhi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Solomon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wes Moore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Deepa Mehta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mirai Nagasu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life is difficult. 
Anyone who says different is 
trying to sell you something.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Goldman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robin Gibb
			
			
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		There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered. But you can't go into small press publishing and complain about the money. Our Little Island publishing just needs to survive. If we're still around in a few years - in vaguely the same shape as we are today - then, to me, that's success.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Latimer
			
			
				Camel