"Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free."
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"My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church."
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"Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow."
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"The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging works of literature. Works of literature that in the United States would sell only a few thousand copies, if they managed to find a publisher at all. The success of these texts in Spain or Italy or wherever contributes to a kind of national conversation that we're perhaps not having here in the U.S."
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"If someone doesn't like another artist's song, that's their prerogative. But now it's kind of scary, and I never thought of it that way! But I love the challenge and feeling fear."
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"I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?"
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"The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you."
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"I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake."
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"My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire."
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"I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated."
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"A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out."
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"The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
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"I think that one of our most difficult international challenges is clearly climate change and making sure that the Paris agreement goes forward. While I think the international community understands that President Trump is not taking the same position as President Obama."
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"I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery."
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"Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good."
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"If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you."
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"You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part."
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"It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge."
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"Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge."
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"The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter."
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