“If you make everything difficult, the really hard things seem less so.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza
“It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation
and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
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