Quotes with encounter

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  • C. Wright Mills The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Vauvenargues We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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  • James Joyce Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jack Kornfield When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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  • Al Franken When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Maya Angelou You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Bell Hooks Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
    Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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