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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
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All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
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It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
Eduardo Paes
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.


Valentino Rossi
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Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.


Winston Churchill
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Zinedine Zidane
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We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.


David Blaine
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The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.
Alan Dershowitz
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.


Andrew Denton
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.
John Sulston
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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Wise men make more opportunities than they find.


Francis Bacon
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We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Nicholas D. Kristof
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
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To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
Itzhak Perlman
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