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the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Quotations regarding 'Difficulty'

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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, American Economist (1943-  )
We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.
Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman (1867-1950)
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
Madeleine Stowe, American Actress (1958-  )
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman (1778-1867)
The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.
Gloria Swanson, American Actress (1899-1983)
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist (1608-1647)
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Anthony Trollope, English Author (1815-1882)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao Tzu, Philosopher
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries, American Novelist (1910-1993)
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director (1926-  )
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.
Andrzej Wajda, Polish Director (1926-  )
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts, English Philosopher (1915-1973)
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
Arsene Wenger, French Coach (1949-  )
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
Eli Whitney, American Inventor (1765-1825)
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist (1865-1943)
 
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