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• The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Novelists, Literature

  Graham Greene (1994). “In Search of a Character: Two African Journals”, Penguin USA

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• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  Rand Paul

  Addresses, Sides, Republican

  "Ron Paul and Rand Paul discuss Politics and Healthcare on CNN". "CNN American Morning" with Kiran Chetry, www.ronpaul.com. August 6, 2009.

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• Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Add, Investing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

  Barbara Jordan

  Ideas, Suffering, Citizens

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

  Mike Huckabee

  Children, People, Leader

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, People, Failing

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• Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.

  Mason Cooley

  Looks, Literature, Illness

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• There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

  James Cameron

  Dream, People, Leap Of Faith

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, Climbing Up

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Hate, Passion

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

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• Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

  Debbie Ford

  Compassion, Giving, Understanding

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• You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Love You, Love Is, Perfect

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• Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

  Harold Lewis

  Responsibility, Saving, Ethics

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• I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle.

  Malcolm X

  Gun, Government, Two

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

  Merle Miller

  Gay, Rights, Lgbt

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• When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

  Leif Enger

  Miracle, Earth, Persons

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Animal, Leaving

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• If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Writing, Style, Deceit

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• Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

  David Foster Wallace

  Dog, Night, Giving

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• Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

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• It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

  Charles Dickens

  Writing, Hands, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.400, Penguin

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• Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Divorce, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.791, Hamilton Books

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• Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.

  Michael Badnarik

  Mean, Gun, Thinking

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