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I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.
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Robert M. Gates
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Born:
Sep 25
,
1943
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity
Pessimist
Every
Difficulty
Sees
Optimist
Every Opportunity
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Opportunity
Pessimist
Every
Difficulty
Sees
Optimist
Every Opportunity
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Art
Adversity
Strength
Man
Fate
Try
Hurdles
Trouble
Difficulties
Difficulty
Alive
Bitter
Dares
Give
Rises
Higher
Troubles
He
Obstacle
Obstacles
Him
Greater
Discourage
His
Encounter
Being
After
Acquired
Dismay
Skill
Who
Each
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes
Difficulty
Resolve
Feasible
Divide
Parts
Many
Each
Necessary
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus
Reputation
Difficulty
More
Greater
Glory
Pilots
Storms
Gain
Skillful
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.
Peter Marshall
God
Great
Blessing
Will
Difficulty
Unless
Out
Troubles
He
Come
Permit
Any
Which
Plan
Us
Specific
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.
Abraham Lincoln
History
Past
Think
Difficulty
Our
High
Must
Anew
Case
Rise
New
Occasion
Piled
Quiet
Stormy
Inadequate
Act
Present
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
Government
Great
You
Men
First
Control
Difficulty
Framing
Must
Lies
Oblige
Over
Enable
Governed
Itself
Place
Which
Next
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome
Long
Difficulty
Sought
Friend
Found
Hardly
Kept
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.
Saint Augustine
Destruction
Post
First
Difficulty
Once
Draw
Drawn
Out
Bad
Only
Take
Driven
Head
Nail
Like
Up
Blow
Done
May
Wood
Being
Hold
After
Cannot
Which
Little
Company
Second
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