Intractable Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,…
— Alain de Botton
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Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of…
— Sadako Ogata
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Whatever the history of U.S. intervention in Iraq, our priorities now should be to protect our people and defend our national security interests, not to…
— Ted Cruz
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes…
— James MacGregor Burns
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Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
— Yaron Brook
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Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in…
— Mahathir Mohamad
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The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical…
— Camille Paglia
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Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should…
— Erik Naggum
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[The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a…
— Peter Ferrara
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy,…
— Vinod Khosla
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I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of…
— Don McCullin
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How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
— Jack McDevitt
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I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
— LeRoy Neiman
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If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or…
— Mem Fox
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No matter what is happening in our lives, we choose how we wish to think about it. And the greatest gift we give ourselves is…
— Marianne Williamson
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Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.
— John Shattuck
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the…
— Margaret Mead
Who Wrote These Intractable Quotes
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