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“In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.”

Mind Sides Cities Serious Israel Obstacles Ariel

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper functioning of democracy. It is important to hear the views of all persons,including the "silent majority", and to give heed to the weaker voices.”

“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”

Reality Levels Attention Brain Serious Obstacles Familiar Breathing Urges Rejects Totality Uncontrollable Primates Uncontrollable Urge

Author:E. J. Gold

“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.”

Today Evil Race Millions Rich Wise Sea Mankind Produce Serious Thousand Hundred Dollars Charity Obstacles Improvement Nine Cures Fifty Thrown Being Wise Unworthy

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“The pope-and we know this well-is without doubt the most serious obstacle on the ecumenical road.”

Knows Wells Doubt Serious Obstacles Pope

Author:Pope Paul VI

“The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.”

Way Book Matter Age Evil Information Serious Reader Obstacles Enormous Branches Throwing Acquisition Scrap Multiplication Lumber

Book:Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)

“There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of solar and other alternative energies, even though it's better for the country, it's better for people. As a world, we've got to get more serious about confronting those obstacles. This knows no culture, no race, no ethnicity.”

“It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.”

Desire Natural Risk Military Serious Obstacles Operations Engaged Troops Causality Military Operations Perfectly Natural

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.”

Writing Serious Obstacles

Author:Victor Levin