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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

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The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else. ↗

— Uma Thurman

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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? ↗

— George Eliot

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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards. ↗

— Uma Thurman

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People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

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