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- Nov 07, 2020
Difficulty Quotes
The obstacle and the opportunity are often the same thing.
Difficulty appears here in very practical terms, like historic travel plans derailed by a shortage of horses, and in far more abstract ones, like hesitation about treating a former ally as an adversary. What ties these together is a sense that hard things demand careful judgment.
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- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
- Pessimist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.
- Nov 07, 2020
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
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- Nov 07, 2020