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• A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways?

  Jaden Smith

  People, Decision, Different

  "Willow and Jaden". Interview with Pharrell Williams, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Bed, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

  Leonard Cohen

  Religious, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We judge the Russians because they're living under despotism and we don't like it, but we've gotten into a fix now where we're living in a common predicament, and we ought to recognize this common predicament.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Judging, Common, Despotism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Common, Communist, Democrat

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.

  Felicity Jones

  Self, Interesting, Inner Strength

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways? I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

  Jaden Smith

  Order, People, Decision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Writing, Character, Numbers

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• It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Age, Quality

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• I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Brother, Powerful, Reading

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• An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

  Richard Cecil

  Grateful, Humble, Men

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1816). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.326

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• By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Parent, Unhappy

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• For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Grateful, Dwarves, Despair

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• There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Crazy, Bits

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 310, 1678.

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• Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Misery, Attaining Happiness

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• I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

  Linda Cardellini

  Real, Responsibility, Home

  "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.

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• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

  Terence McKenna

  Long, Miracle, Has Beens

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• We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Civilization, Unusual

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiving, Done, Redemption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [...] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation.

  Pete Hegseth

  Military, Self, Law

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• I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Skeletons, Naked

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.

  Philip Kitcher

  Lying, Animal, Fundamentals

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

  Gao Xingjian

  Eye, Men, Names

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• Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Mean, Acceptance

  "A Gleeful Splash of Ogden Nash" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. May 08, 2005.

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