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"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
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"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."

"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."

"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."

"Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way."

"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."

"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."

"There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted."

"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."
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"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it."
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