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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

- Pope Paul VI Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

- Marcus V. Pollio Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

- James Payn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

- Marvin J. Ashton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

- John Morgan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

- Epicurus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

- Alan Wilson Watts Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

- Manuel Puig Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It was the honest difficulty based on the intelligence that had - the information that had been collected that led the analysts to that conclusion.

- David Kay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The impoverishing effects of the system were early obvious, and to the endeavour to account for the increasing difficulty of obtaining food.

- Henry Charles Carey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's amazing that most firms can't tell you how much their messaging infrastructure costs, yet continue to throw money at the problem with no difficulty at all.

- Chris Hughes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We would have an enormous power difficulty in the short term that would create very real disruptions for the people of Westchester and New York City.

- George Pataki Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

America is having quite a bit of difficulty keeping up with growth from the Asian economies.

- Bruce Miller Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Buzz does understand the nature of the industry, and he certainly knows that there's no way they can get the 4 or 5 gains they had previously. The difficulty that this industry is facing, it just isn't possible.

- Carlos Gomes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.

- Lee H. Hamilton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

- John Locke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The thread that runs through these dozens of calls I've received is, 'You're doing what you're known for. You're known for helping people when they are in difficulty, and that's what you known for,'

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It just so happens, I suppose, that one of the two candidates has more difficulty in dealing with those issues than the other, ... But quite frankly the sermon was critical of Kerry as well.

- Robert Long Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In between the points I saw how much difficulty she sometimes had breathing. But my level was OK, I'm satisfied.

- Amelie Mauresmo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An empty head is not really empty it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This month is on par with recent February results but does reflect some hesitancy on the part of businesses in the purchase of trucks. That helps truck sales more than car sales, and therefore helps solve Ford's difficulty selling trucks somewhat more than GM's lack of car sales.

- Paul Taylor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Today's data are very heartening, especially after Alan Greenspan yesterday played down any potential risks that the United States is having difficulty in financing its trade deficit.

- Ashraf Laidi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes