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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. -- William Shakespeare
Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. -- Katy Butler
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. -- John Green
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her. -- Seneca the Younger
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. -- Henry Adams
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. -- Gale Norton
We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself. -- Timothy Keller
I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending. -- Amy Klobuchar
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. -- Oscar Wilde
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -- Sophie Swetchine
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? -- John Milton
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them. -- William Gilmore Simms
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. -- Agnes Repplier
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. -- Irving Stone
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. -- Brian Aldiss
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow. -- Arthur Miller
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. -- Herman Melville
As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity. -- Richard Holbrooke
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations. -- Daniel Tammet
We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have. -- Jonathon Keats
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. -- Douglas Adams
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made. -- Anne Sexton
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer. -- Mal Peet
Before we can even begin to grapple with the frustrations and tragedies of life in this world, we must do away with our faithless morality of payback and reward. -- Tullian Tchividjian
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. -- Richard Yates
I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits. -- Jennifer Granholm
I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent. -- Mikhail Tal
Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing. -- Jodi Kantor
My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things. -- Greg Pak
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come. -- Natasha Trethewey

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