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Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to… — James A.C. Brown
We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have… — Judson Cornwall
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. — Seneca the Younger
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now,… — Mark Twain
To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim. — John Cheever
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from… — Mario Cuomo
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes… — Ricardo Semler
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I… — Peter Eisenman
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. — Emile Durkheim
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that… — Chief Seattle
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do… — Alan Bennett
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work,… — Haruki Murakami
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to… — John Boyle O'Reilly
When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your… — Henry Rollins
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer… — Alice Walker
Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only… — Fritz Todt
O Christ, on you the many-eyed cherubim are unable to look because of the glory of your countenance, yet out of your love you accepted… — Isaac of Nineveh
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried… — Emil Cioran
True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo… — Anthony Albanese
If Congress is unable to do its job and pass a federal budget, then I do not believe we should receive a salary. — Unknown Author

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