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“Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.”
Sir Thomas Beecham
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”
Edward R. Murrow
“We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
“The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing”
John Clare
“It is difficulties that show what men are”
Epictetus
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”
Dan Rather
“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde
“The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.”
Karl von Clausewitz
“The difficulty in life is the choice.”
George Moore
“The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.”
Benjamin Franklin
