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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

Words, Actions, Described

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Life, Men, Real

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Wind, While, Tree

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

Best, Satisfied

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

Mean, Trying, Adversity

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Time, Men, Yourself

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

God, Ask, Nonsense

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

Great, Cake, Empire

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Government, Fall

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Hope, Youth, Deceived

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Men, Find

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Material, Dresses

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

Power, Liberty, Ruins

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

Free, Adversity, State

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

Good, May, Another

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Rock, Sometimes, Write

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

Money, Business, Defined

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Great, Lost, Battle

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson

Anyone, Cut, Bleed

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson

Work, Men, Hard

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Maynard James Keenan

History, Government, Control

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung

Great, Humanity, Lovely

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Jung

Sense, Calm, Leave

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine

Esteem, Lightly, Obtain

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo Coelho

Waiting, Words, Cry

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Through, Virtues

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

Learning, Children, Before

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