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"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."

"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."

"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

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

"Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it."

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

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
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