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“The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy.”

Men Made Facts Easy Chance Moral Support Wife He Man Becoming Difficulty Response Practicals Attractive Assumption Enthusiastic Polygamy

Book:The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

Source: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints

“It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent”

Circumstances Degrees Difficulty Response Determine Discontent

Book:Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Source: Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

“Our Pavlovian response to movies has gotten to its lowest point ever. You look at a lot of movies that are successful and a lot of movies that studios hold up as examples and you go, 'My God, that isn't even a story. It isn't even two acts. It's eight set pieces drawn out with slow motion.' The difficulty for me was that you had to hope that people were interested in this kind of a story.”

People Looks Kind Two Stories Successful Pieces Example Difficulty Response Studios Eight Lowest Slow Motion Lowest Point

Author:David Fincher

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”

Healthy Sick Difficulty Response Ill Fitting Demonstrating Sick Society Positive Response

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.”

Men Hate Inspire Weakness Hatred Difficulty Response Pity Despise Vengeance Warrants

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.”

Ifs Facts Use Government Courses Energy Ability Movement Produce Citizens Civilization Difficulty Threat Response Environmental Inspired Global Warming Environmentalism Coping Crippled

Author:George Reisman