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• My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Taken, Intelligent, Race

  "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Introduction, p. 9, 1977.

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• I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Israel, Democracy

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• On a Tuesday night they were wed, And by Friday they were dead. And they buried them in the churchyard side by side, Oh my love, And they buried them in the churchyard side by side." Breaking away from Gideon with some reluctance, Sophie rose to her feet and dusted off her dress. "Please forgive me, my dear Mr. Lightwood- I mean Gideon- but I must go and murder the cook. I shall be directly back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Friday, Mean, Night

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• On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spring, Crowds, April

  "Memoirs". Book by Edward Gibbon, Vol. i. p. 116, 1796.

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• Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Wrath

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attitude, Years, People

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• I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  Samuel Pepys

  Business, Giving, Way

  Diary, 9 Mar. 1666

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• MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Moving, Lines

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2460, Delphi Classics

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• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

  William Greider

  New York, Punishment, Grace

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

  Ronald Reagan

  Misunderstood, Politics, Action

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Too Much, Way, Old Ways

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.7, Vintage

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• Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

  Isaac Asimov

  Management, Process, Change Management

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• Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and act anyway.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positivity, Order, Weather

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• ...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Numbers, Views

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• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.

  William J. Duiker

  Decision, Enemy, Weakness

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Delay, Exit

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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• There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Baby, Nice, Moving

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• There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

  John Cameron Mitchell

  Crush, Country, Sex

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

  Rick Ross

  Choices, Groups, Lasts

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• Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Military, Land, Quirky

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

  Daniel Powter

  Responsibility, Cameras, Love Making

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Given [Donald] Trump`s polling deficit, his reluctance for ads until very recently in his near total lack of any ground game to speak off, it came as a surprise today that according to The Washington Post, Trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raising events, relying almost exclusively on online donations, which, of course, tend to be much smaller.

  Chris Hayes

  Games, Events, Dollars

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We live in a time when people are increasingly skittish about evangelism - Christians and non-Christians alike. People are suspicious of evangelism, and misunderstand it, which contributes to our reluctance to share the gospel. When you add our fear of others' reactions as well as our natural laziness to the equation, it's not hard to see why we make such little progress in sharing our faith.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, People, Progress

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Running, Creativity, Effort

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