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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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"I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation."

"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved."

"There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties."

"I've always had difficulties with female characters."

"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."

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

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."

"Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."
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