Quotes with confrontation

  • They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

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  • Alain Juppe Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
    Alain Juppe
     
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • David Cronenberg I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Gray It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bill Parcells Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • C. J. Mahaney Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • Angela Carter The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alva Myrdal War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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