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“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.”

Hard Individual Differences Common Democracy Rich Core Variety Agreement Hard Core Individual Differences

Author:James Bryant Conant

“I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.”

Men Want Littles Different Hard Today Guy Common Hard Work Tomorrow Discipline Commitment Average Wrestling Common Man Better Tomorrow

Author:Jay Robinson

“If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.”

Ifs Men Way Hard States Pleasure Common Accepting Lord Refuse Flesh Common Ground

Author:Saint Basil

“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.”

World Should Writing Mean War Hard Hate Prayer Common Generations Involved Projects Remains Competition Males War Of The Worlds Paradigm Gore Second World War Self Hate

Author:Erica Jong

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.”

Two Ideas Hard Strong Decision Common Policy Members Europe Unions Speed Circles Commit Making Decisions

Author:Georgi Parvanov

“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”

Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

“It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.”

Mind Believe Long Hard Eye Together Friendship Common Now And Then Kindles Hard To Believe

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus