#difficulties

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

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Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings. ↗

— Markus Wolf

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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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