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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and… — Susan Jacoby
Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which… — Livy
The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender. — Tibullus
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new. — Ariel Gore
Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying… — Arne Duncan
Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of… — Gil Gerard
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways. — Sade Adu
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier… — James A. Michener
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why… — Frederick Buechner
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of. — J. D. McClatchy
I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it… — Alexander Dolgun
The reluctant hero is always fun to play. — David Giuntoli
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in… — George Bernard Shaw
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo. — Tacitus
It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds
The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having… — Alain de Botton
One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects… — Howard Hughes
France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy… — Christine Lagarde
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost… — Alain de Botton
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very… — George Bernard Shaw
I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to… — John F. Kennedy
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose… — Hunter S. Thompson
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. — William Gibson
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out… — Alan Cumming

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