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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#disturb #every #ghost #later #over

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time. ↗

— George Takei

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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here. ↗

— George Takei

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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us. ↗

— George Takei

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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood. ↗

— George Takei

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As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

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