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  • One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
  • A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
  • The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
  • Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
  • As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
  • What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
  • When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
  • I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
  • Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
  • Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Lee Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Joseph Addison Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ben Lovett 'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • E. B. White A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • James Baldwin A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. H. Auden A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • C. E. Montague A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
    C. E. Montague
     
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Ian McEwan A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
    Atonement (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • George D. Prentice A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Samuel Johnson Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Khaled Hosseini All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
    And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Albert Einstein All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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