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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.

The most quoted line in this collection puts it simply: an optimist finds opportunity inside every difficulty, while a pessimist finds difficulty inside every opportunity. For more on pushing through, see our Face quotes.

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