#encounter

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. ↗

— Frederick Reines

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #draw #encounters #generalization #half

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#best #bunch #cerebral #close #encounters

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. ↗

— Stephan Jenkins

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The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangers #daughters #does #encounter #enlist

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

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People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

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