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• Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Comforting, High Standards

  "Superpower, Real and Unreal" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2005.

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• You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Night, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Night, England

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming to God for the fulfillment of His will, coming to a God who delights to answer prayer.

  John F Walvoord

  Prayer, Mean, Delight

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• Sometimes I sit up late with my thoughts, reluctant to fall asleep and leave my thoughts alone by themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Fall, Sleep, Insomnia

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• The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Autism, Community, Reason Why

  "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

  Victor Hugo

  Night, Names, Giving

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Guilt, Daily Life, Shame

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.

  Charles Tilly

  War, Moving, Mean

  Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Party, Taken, Pride

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• Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to have been right all along-and he deserves great credit for having been so reluctant to become involved when the energy-rich chemical intermediates began to be so fashionable. This reminds me of the aphorism: 'The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer'.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Science, Simple, Views

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• At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure."

  Naomi Oreskes

  Strong, Sides, Scientist

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• Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's down. Now taxi in. Switch off. It's over - but not quite, for the port engine, just as if it knew, as if reluctant at the last to let me go, kicked, kicked, and kicked again, as overheated engines will, then backfired with an angry snorting: Fool! The best is over ...But I did not hear.

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Home, Long, Down And

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• Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Sex, Faces, Facts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

  Margot Livesey

  Hero, Writing, Heart

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• It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

  Lyle Lovett

  Two, People, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

  Roger Scruton

  Gratitude, Government, Apathy

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• The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

  Tibullus

  Love, God Love, Surrender

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• They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

  Ariel Gore

  Years, Way, Something New

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• Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

  Gil Gerard

  Writing, Stuff, Projects

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• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  Sade Adu

  Way

  "Transforming Sade talks new 'Lifetime' tour". Q&A with David Lindquist, www.azcentral.com. July 22, 2011.

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• We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

  James A. Michener

  Space, Our Generation, Challenges

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• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

  Martin McGuinness

  Government, Giving, Decision

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• Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Fighting, Love Is

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.19, Vintage

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• The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Reflection, Years, Two

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