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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 Bloom

— 1987  The Closing of the American Mind, preface.

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The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

nelson mandela

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It's not easy being green.

Kermit the Frog

— "Bein' Green" in Sesame Street (1970)

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The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

thomas jefferson

— Letter to Elbridge Gerry (13 May 1797).

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Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...

John Lennon

— "Imagine" (1971)

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Do not pray for an easy life but pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

bruce lee

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It is not easy to conceive the difficulties we have had.

henry knox

— Knox to George Washington on the difficulties of taking Cannon to Boston.-McCullough pg 83

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In 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 auden

— Interlude: West's Disease", p. 245

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It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.

ratu joni madraiwiwi

— Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005

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It 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 mozart

— Spoken in Prague, 1787, to conductor Kucharz, who led the rehearsals for Don Giovanni, from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)

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To 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 roosevelt

— The Higher Life of American Cities in The Outlook (p. 1083 - 1085) from 21 December 1895

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It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.


— Life of Sertorius.

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Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last.

Francis Bacon

— 1625  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

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And seeing the snail, which everywhere doth roam, Carrying his own house still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail, Be thine own palace, or the world's thy gaol.

john donne

— 1597-8  'To Sir Henry Wotton'.

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The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.


— 1923  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.

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It 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 gogh

— 1888  From a letter to his brotherTheo, early Oct.

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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

benjamin banneker

— This appeared in Banneker's Almanac in 1794, and is commonly attributed to him, but originates earlier in "Reflections on different Subjects of Morality, by Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland, Duke of Lorrain and Bar" in The Universal Magazine (1765), p. 119

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The 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 ethiopia

— Jonathan Dimbleby in Feeding on Ethiopia's Famine in The Independent, 8 December 1998

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“These people have successfully incorporated a belief in your martial prowess into their religion; how can you deny them?” “Believe me, it would be easy.”

iain banks

— Chapter Twelve (p. 390)

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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.

bill gates

— p. 265 in hardcover edition, corrected in paperback

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

vincent van gogh

— As quoted in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Vol. 2 (1958) New York Graphic Society, p. 12

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The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.

william cowper

— William Cowper, Table Talk, line 237.

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The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.


— As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 49.

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And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.


— Voltairine de Cleyre, in Peter Glassgold Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Counterpoint Press, 1 November 2012, p.208

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"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 Carroll

— 1865  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.7, 'A Mad Tea-Party'.

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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Marlon Brando

— Rolling Stone Issue No. 213 (May 20, 1976) on Bernardo Bertolucci.

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Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

hesiod

— line 761.

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It's easier to leave than to be left behind Leaving was never my proud Leaving New York, never easy I saw the light fading out You find it in your heart, it's pulling me apart You find it in your heart, change...


— R.E.M., Leaving New York.

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I 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.


— James Caan [Nazim Khan] (b.1960), Pakistan-born British businessman. Interview for Director Magazine, May 2008.

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