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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things… — Charles Hummel
England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited… — William Crookes
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That… — William J. Clinton
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must… — May Sarton
Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some… — C.S. Lewis
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients… — Charles Caleb Colton
There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to… — Louis C. K.
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they… — Marlene Dietrich
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same… — Sydney J. Harris
A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st century by showing consumers how seriously… — Simon Mainwaring
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. — Guy de Maupassant
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. — H. L. Mencken
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in… — James Surowiecki
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible… — Lewis Thomas
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the… — E. O. Wilson
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know. — Bob Woodward
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with… — Rob Sheffield
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no… — Jodi Picoult
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing… — Doris Lessing
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes… — Victor Hugo
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. — George F. Kennan
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence… — Barry Lopez

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