Top 100 Quotes About Plight

#1. CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright.

Piet Hein

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#2. What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes ...

Ralph Barton Perry

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#3. It is unthinkable and grotesque that we make the same mistake over and over again. There should be an uproar of children shouting, "What about me?" But they often can't speak and so their plight goes unnoticed...

Elizabeth Glaser

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#4. It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most of the blame lies on man's inclination to tune into the noise that blares all around him instead of the beautiful silence that lies deep within.

Alyson Noel

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#5. The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

Mahmoud Abbas

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#6. My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore.

Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden

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#7. When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Bryan Stevenson

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#8. He'd spent his life with orphans, he understood their special plight, so he didn't hate them like most people did. He just wasn't one of them.

Adam Johnson

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#9. 99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.

Rajendra K. Pachauri

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#10. Seeing the Afghan women in their burqas, it's easy to say, "Well, they're not as fully aware as I am, so why do I have to worry so much about their plight?" But that's a misunderstanding. They are brutally aware of their station.

Eliza Griswold

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#11. What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Wade Davis

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#12. I don't think the pain of a broken heart is one I will survive," I said, lying across the upstairs landing so that everybody would notice my plight.

Matthew Crow

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#13. A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Honore De Balzac

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#14. Happiness is just an illusion. And any attempt to achieve it is the ultimate cause of your plight

Katie Kacvinsky

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#15. That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.

Sam J. Charlton

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#16. Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

Woody Harrelson

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#17. When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Steve Jobs

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#18. Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

Marie Howe

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#19. Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Robin R. Meyers

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#20. I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

Martin Luther

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#21. The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should feel--happy for the gay newlywed, sad at the plight of the Syrian refugee, resentful to pay taxes. The left sees prejudice.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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#22. What hands do I possess?
What sight!
What deliberations do I confess?
What plight!

Ashfaq Saraf

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#23. Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#24. The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

Tim LaHaye

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#25. As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Andrew Gross

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#26. All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.

Upton Sinclair

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#27. The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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#28. The dead are never still, they exist just beyond the corners of our eye, in the barren wasteland beyond our own phantasmagoria, and we, for the most part, remain oblivious to their plight.

David Brian

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#29. My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

Steven Callahan

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#30. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)

Muse

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#31. In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

Oskar Schlemmer

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#32. I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

CeeLo Green

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#33. The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Tim Bishop

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#34. I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

Tad Williams

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#35. Counted my money and reckoned my total worth at something less than fifty dollars. Although, as I said, I was without real fear in my plight, I could not help feeling a trifle insecure, especially

William Styron

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#36. I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

John McAfee

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#37. The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#38. My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Eudora Welty

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#39. How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

Julius Gordon

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#40. The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

Oscar Arias

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#41. I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill, nor to create suffering in a grasping search for selfish objectives, but to help alleviate the plight of the needy; to aim at justice and freedom for the individual.

Poul Hartling

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#42. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

Bennett Madison

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#43. Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul Samuelson

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#44. She'd always pitied the plight of genies until once when she'd freed one from a young beserker. Instead of thanks, the chit had laid into her, screaming, To each her own, lightening whore!

Kresley Cole

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#45. I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

Alanis Morissette

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#46. I will keep you safe throughout your flight and trip to Jerusalem. Then you must rise above your struggle. Only then will you appreciate your plight.

Jamie McGuire

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#47. A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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#48. LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

Ryan Phillippe

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#49. Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.

Alice Hoffman

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#50. The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever.

Thomas Harris

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#51. I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

Joy Bryant

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#52. Since a very young age, my mother made sure to tell me about the plight of women. As she raised my awareness about women's issues, she also made sure to ingrain in me the importance of being strong and independent and not to let anybody define me by their images of what women should be.

Zainab Salbi

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#53. The plight of uninsured children, elderly persons, and so many others whose lack of health insurance is genuinely a national scandal.

William Levada

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#54. Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that 'Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.' That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.

Kcat Yarza

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#55. I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

Lou Holtz

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#56. I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Kailash Satyarthi

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#57. The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

George Carey

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#58. Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.

John Lamb Lash

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#59. What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state.

William Shakespeare

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#60. Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?
Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

Thomas Harris

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#61. Opportunities are everywhere. Needed are eyes to see the pitiable plight and ears to hear the silent pleadings of a broken heart.

Thomas S. Monson

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#62. It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

Wavy Gravy

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#63. the plight of being old: clearly recalling what it was like to act voluntarily and enjoy life as it came, now trapped in a frame that forbade anything except slow cautious movements

John Brunner

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#64. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.

Lloyd Alexander

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#65. Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again - in a new way.

Gloria Steinem

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#66. I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

Leon Wagner

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#67. There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

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#68. What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Alice Miller

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#69. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you.

Libba Bray

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#70. Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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#71. She knew better: when artistry seems most elusive is when you must focus, dig deep, and force yourself to think about how to give form to an idea that seems too vague to express.

Maryanne O'Hara

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#72. You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

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#73. Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It's clever - the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.

Tarryn Fisher

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#74. I'm concerned about the plight of children. But I'm not on a mission to get all the available orphans in the world adopted into Christian homes.

Andy Stanley

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#75. Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

Hans F. Sennholz

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#76. The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

Richard Hovey

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#77. The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Tom Hayden

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#78. The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. For them, the racial bribe was primarily psychological.

Michelle Alexander

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#79. The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.

Richard M. Nixon

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#80. It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

Alexander McQueen

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#81. For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Dominick Dunne

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#82. I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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#83. The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain ... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

Tad R. Callister

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#84. I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person ... Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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#85. Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. - 2 Chronicles 30:27 PRAYER is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#86. The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

Avijeet Das

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#87. If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

Malcolm X

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#88. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015

Don Swann II

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#89. You have been given a mind to solve problems for others,
a heart to feel compassion for others,
a mouth to speak kind words to others,
ears to hear the plight of others,
eyes to look out for others,
and hands to sustain others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#90. If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#91. And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

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#92. The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.

Ai Weiwei

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#93. If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

David Cameron

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#94. Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collective response. It may well become the place of collective organizing, the common ground, the issue that unites all women.

Bell Hooks

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#95. As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

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#96. It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt. As a toddler, Louie had leapt from a train

Laura Hillenbrand

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#97. Now go with me and with this holy man
Into the chantry by: there, before him,
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith.

William Shakespeare

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#98. By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.

Ryan Boudinot

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#99. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Stephen Covey

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#100. They're tortured by indecision and guilt and lust. They love X but want to fuck Z. It is the plight of almost every monogamous person at one time or another. We all love X but want to fuck Z.

Cheryl Strayed

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