It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
John Burroughs
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JACK O'SHEA It is so much easier to believe what you need than what you know.
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ERIC HOFFER Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.
ROBY JAMES The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denat...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.
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ADLAI STEVENSON It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
ALFRED ADLER The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...
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SMILEY BLANTON Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
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TACITUS To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
BLAISE PASCAL Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.
MARTY RUBIN It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
WILLIAM OSLER Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before...
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A. LEONARD GRIFFITH Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat...
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ALYSSA MAY No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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AL FERNANDEZ It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.
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LARRY KLEIN We love him. He is always on our minds.
ANGELA GONZALEZ To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
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WALTER DELLINGER It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is easier to start a war than to end it.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
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ROBBIE BURROUGHS About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned ...
ROBBIE BURROUGHS He gave up about five minutes later.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
KITT BURROUGHS Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling wi...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and l...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It has been proven that preserving these properties increases their value.
BEN BURROUGHS By preserving these neighborhoods, we are creating a draw for tourists and that translates into an e...
BEN BURROUGHS We are talking about something that cannot be bought. It's our heritage, and it needs to be preserve...
BEN BURROUGHS You deserve to need me, not to have me.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sad...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horrib...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrific...
DILLON BURROUGHS Use the talents you’ve developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as f...
LAURA BURROUGHS I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alo...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'ga...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emot...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Never work with children, puppies or bulimics
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it"
"But did you go to a me...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and dr...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS There's not enough of me left over.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS