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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if… — Carl Sagan
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… — Mohsin Hamid
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn.… — Lauren DeStefano
The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is… — Naomi Wolf
All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a… — John Flanagan
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,… — John F. Kennedy
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling,… — Rene Descartes
At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This… — Emma Donoghue
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even… — Carol Shields
First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and… — Janet Fitch
I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand,… — Emily Giffin
When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When… — Randy Alcorn
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only… — Laura Hillenbrand
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you… — J R Ward
Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their… — Khaled Hosseini
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having.… — Gayle Forman
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue. — Mike Murdock
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind. — Jorge Luis Borges
The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat… — Arthur Ransome
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue… — Loretta Napoleoni
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to… — George Steiner
God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. — Greg Boyle
Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the… — Tim Wise

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