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"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."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."
"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
"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."
"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."
"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"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."
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"He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion."
"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."
"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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