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• Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.

  Ellen G. White

  Daughter, Prayer, Son

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

  Don DeLillo

  Fabric, Salvation, Seems

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Lying, Names

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• (...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Real, Self Esteem, Mean

  Edward De Bono (1972). “PO: a device for successful thinking”

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• The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

  Francis Collins

  Trying, Sound, Downgrading

  "Francis Collins on Making Life". Interview with Robert Krulwich, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2005.

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• Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there.

  Charles Schumer

  Party, Believe, Israel

  "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.

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• I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Home, Night

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• The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Essence, Ego

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• Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Father, Son, Views

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• I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Mother, Beach, Children

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

  Caroline Myss

  Tribes

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

  Craig Thompson

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

  Sandra Brown

  Skills, Males, Attention

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• ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Believe, Laughing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.160, Dial Press

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• Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

  Arundhati Roy

  Memories, Water, Heaven

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• The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club

  Dave Barry

  Country, Night, Fire

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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• I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

  Rick Riordan

  Reading, Lord, Cases

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• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  Sally Ride

  Names, Secret, Use

  "American Woman Who Shattered Space Ceiling" by Denise Grady, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.

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• You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

  Corazon Aquino

  Freedom, Land, People

  Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1986). “Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986”

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• While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

  Michele Bachmann

  Issues, Political, Citing

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.85, Penguin

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• It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Growing Up, Nice, Moving

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• A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

  Diablo Cody

  Would Be, Monkeys, Months

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• For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Missing, Example

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• High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

  Dave Eggers

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• In fact, I point out that all the conspiracies in history - especially during the last 5000 years - are actually different aspects of the same conspiracy. Some people fixed on one aspect of the conspiracy, and say this is the problem, others say another thing, but the thing is all the conspirators work together. All the conspirators are part of the same operation. And this is what people find very reluctant.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, People, Working Together

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