Quotes with reluctantly

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• Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

  ― Frank Moore Colby
  American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

  ― Norman Douglas
  British Author (1868 - 1952)
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• I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

  ― Bun E. Carlos
  American drummer (1950 - )
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• It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.

  Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962

  ― Cyril Northcote Parkinson
  British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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• The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

  ― Bill Cosby
  American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• accommodation
• grantsmanship
• foundation
• executives
• suggested
• childhood

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