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  • It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
  • When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
  • His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

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  • Candice Millard As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Evelyn Waugh His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • B. C. Forbes History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Asa Gray The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Gregory Nunn The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bob Edwards When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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