Most bacteria opt for an easy life breaking down organic material that is already dead.
As President Obama took care to remind his audience last month, the Rough Rider was born into an easy life.
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He also discovered that nothing comes easy in life and there are no short cuts on the path to glory.
Part of the mission is to make donating habitual, easy and life-long.
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Deep down, I have sometimes suspected they just want an easy life.
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Compared with frenetic East Asians and post-Thatcher Britons, Australians still prefer the easy life but want the earnings that go with a harder one.
Most Gulf nationals are under 25, which means that they have grown up with high expectations of an easy life cushioned by the state and oil.
And the parliament could help dispel its reputation for an easy life in the comfort zone by agreeing to sit into the summer to confirm a new commission before September.
Its not an easy life being a businessman in Seoul -- not with the won collapsing and the economy on the verge of recession -- but Lim was not so crazy.
He has set himself the ambitious goal of creating 100m jobs by 2019, but says this depends on the Chinese government adopting a more positive attitude towards entrepreneurs, who do not have an easy life in his country.
It was a culture shock after his self-confessed "easy life" back home -- where he admits a love for the local alcohol kava resulted in him getting a gold tooth after coming off second best in a drunken fight.
Having looked at the Scottish government's claims of surpassing its efficiency targets, it's found some of them are based only on what is reported back to them by government agencies, who obviously have a strong interest in massaging cuts into efficiencies for the sake of an easy life.
It isn't going to be easy, but life does get a whole lot more rewarding the further you get on this journey.
The first part of the answer is easy: until life improves in the Mexican countryside, there will always be migrants ready to undertake a perilous journey north.
When you're in the heart of Saudi Arabia running around managing logistics to cover an estimated influx of two million pilgrims from around the world, it's easy to forget life back home.
Such an attitude which relies more and more on an easy, comfortable life, and on what cannot be avoided, remind me of Dedalo who obeys king Minosse, and afterewards becomes his victim.
"He is a consummate public servant, and public service is not easy whenever your life is open for constant scrutiny and everything you do is under a microscope, " said New York state Assemblyman Keith L.T.
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As I examined their stories, as well as the stories of others in the public eye who have achieved high levels of professional success, I became even more convinced that an easy, charmed life is far from a recipe for greatness.
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In those days and weeks it was easy to offer a life, to lay it down.
It is easy to forget what life was like even a decade or so ago.
Drugs cause dreadful harm, but whatever the reason she did it, it's too easy to take a life.
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Not that Vodafone has made life easy for itself since publishing its offer document two days before Christmas.
Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.
Where big countries do seem to be able to agree is in objecting to small tax havens that make life easy for cheats, particularly individuals.
Just as the global rise of English makes life easy for idle Britons or Americans, it breeds complacency among those with English as their second language.
But when it became clear that Sven's men were not going to make life easy for themselves, the nagging fear of a Euro 2000 repeat began to loom large.
It would probably be easy to spend your life caretaking your mother's legacy, but that would make it difficult to get any of your own work done.
Opposition parties support reforms in principle, but have little incentive to make life easy for a president whose party opposed those self-same reforms when they were in power.
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