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As quoted in Crosstown Traffic (1989) by Charles Shaar Murray
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan BloomIt's not easy being green.
Kermit the FrogThe second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
thomas jeffersonIt is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.
henry knoxIn societies with fewer opportunities for amusement, it was also easier to tell a mere wish from a real desire. If, in order to hear some music, a man has to wait for six months and then walk twenty miles, it is easy to tell whether the words, "I should like to hear some music," mean what they appear to mean, or merely, "At this moment I should like to forget myself." When all he has to do is press a switch, it is more difficult. He may easily come to believe that wishes can come true.
wystan hugh audenIt is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.
ratu joni madraiwiwiIt is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.
wolfgang amadeus mozartTo sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.
theodore rooseveltBeauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.
Francis BaconIt is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
vincent van goghPresumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
benjamin bannekerThe atrocities for which [members of the Derg regime] are now collectively indicted can tempt the unwary into nostalgia for Haile Selassie. It is easy to forget that the emperor used to authorise public hangings, that his opponents were routinely tortured, that courtiers who fell from grace were not only jailed but frequently held in chains as well, and that concepts of justice, liberty and democracy were effectively outlawed from public debate.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopiaThe obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
bill gatesPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
vincent van goghThe road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." "You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "It's very easy to take more than nothing."
Lewis CarrollBertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
Marlon BrandoI don’t believe there are any free lunches. There is no easy ride to success. The journey is what it is and you have to accept that if you want to be a successful entrepreneur.