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• We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

  Stuart Rose

  Gaps, Faces, Rich

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.

  T. D. Jakes

  Prayer, Trouble, Crisis

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• The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.

  Jennifer Fox

  Girl, Boys, Littles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

  Linda Lantieri

  Education, Mean, People

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• Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Running, Needs, Helping

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Kellerman from Mar 14, 2013

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• The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

  E. O. Wilson

  Spiritual, Essence, Views

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage

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• How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Teaching, Looks, Students

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• I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

  Dana Gould

  Waffles, Pay, Cones

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• To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Trying, Pace, Development

  "The Human Predicament: A Way Out?". Contemporary Philosophy 11(6), p. 4, 1985.

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• The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Liars, Lying, Skills

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• Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Together, Different, World

  Clyde Kluckhohn (2017). “Mirror for Man: The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life”, p.29, Routledge

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• The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

  Christopher Dawson

  Spiritual, Religious, Political

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.118, CUA Press

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• You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ham, Idiot, Breeze

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.240, Macmillan

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• We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

  Jay Rockefeller

  War, Tyrants, Iraq

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• There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

  Louis C. K.

  Old Friends, Doe, Wow

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, July 5, 2012.

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• Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west." "We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?

  Melina Marchetta

  Prayer, Children, Voice

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• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  Jackie Chan

  Hate, Violence, Kind

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2014

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• A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fathers Day, Kings, Dad

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

  Adi Da

  Wisdom, Self, Perfect

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• Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

  Waller R Newell

  Country, Pride, Men

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• In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure of compounded interest to be paid in gold at a future date, failed to raise more than about half the needed amount. So the Union faced a real dilemma. The only options remaining were (1) terminate the war or (2) print fiat money. For Lincoln and the Republicans who controlled Congress, the choice was never seriously in doubt.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Real, War, Government

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• Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

  Peabo Bryson

  Regret, Oneness, People

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• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  Vernor Vinge

  Science, Creative, Fiction

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• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  Randall Terry

  Baby, Safe, Want

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