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“So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.”

States Difficult United United States Issues Materials Weapons Evidence Nuclear Significant Iran Resolve Quantity Nuclear Weapons

Author:Joseph Cirincione

“It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.”

Difficult Charity Significant Piety Rationalism Reasonableness

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.”

Needs Mean Littles Ends Difficult Industry Built Connections Fortune Significant Sincere Exceptional Seriousness Disparity Triviality

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse things is necessary to understand it. Rather it is the contrast between the understanding of the subject and what most people want to see. Because of this the very things that are most obvious can become the most difficult to understand. What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.”

People Ifs Want Important Difficult Understanding Special Subjects Overcoming Difficulty Obvious Intellect Significant Instruction Contrast

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.”

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

“EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation.”

Process Difficult Dangerous Constitution Significant Continuing Expansion Participation Slow Down Standardization

Author:Vaclav Klaus