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title: "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear"
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# The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

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- **What is this?** The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by paul rogat loeb
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## Customer Reviews

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    Review about condition of book: back cover bent in half - cannot be smoothed
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2023*

Review about condition of book: back cover bent in half - cannot be smoothed

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    Think of some small way to act in service of what we believe
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2014*

Let’s face it: the past 15 years have been tough for America. A stolen presidential election, terrorist attacks, two stock market crashes, one resulting in a global financial crisis, elective wars, the futile war on drugs, political gridlock, FOX News, rising inequality, rising healthcare costs, and on and on.There is no shortage of narratives to explain how we got here. James Howard Kunstler’s is one of my favorites. However, as pessimistic as I am, I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to tell us that social, economic and environmental collapse are inevitable. None of us has a crystal ball.What we are in short supply of is reason for hope, and that is what Paul Loeb gives us in the timely revised edition of his reader-friendly anthology The Impossible Will Take a Little While. Feeling beyond hope? There’s a whole section on that. Looking for a good quote? The book is full of them. Here’s one from Cornell West: “To live is to wrestle with despair yet never allow despair to have the last word.” Not in the mood for an essay? The book includes great poetry by Rumi, Marge Piercy, W.H. Auden, and many others. And don’t forget to read Paul’s always thoughtful section introductions.As I write this, the Seattle political establishment has just released a plan - mirabile dictu - for a $15/hour minimum wage. Let’s not give up quite yet. As Paul says, let’s “think of some small way to act” in service of what we believe.I plan to keep this book on our nightstand, and read it regularly. I suggest you do the same.

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    Inspiring, but at the same time overly optimistic
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 22, 2017*

In this book Paul Loeb provides a number of inspirational stories of how to deal with difficulties in life, both personal and on a national and global scale. I found it interesting reading but a little too idealistic. Evil exists and it won't go away ever.  I have tried in my own life to accomplish, as an American, the impossible (promote peace, equality and kindness) and have found at the age of 78 that it is truly impossible, except in isolated cases. I am more inspired by the words of Mahatma Gandhi: "We must become the change we want to see in the world" and "You have to do the right thing...You may never know the results that come from your action...Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal, and not in reaching it.

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