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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
French
Mathematician
Born:
Mar 31
,
1596
Died:
Feb 11
,
1650
Topics
Difficulty
,
Resolve
,
Feasible
,
Divide
,
Parts
,
Many
,
Each
,
Necessary
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander Hamilton
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
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