#encounter

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

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Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. ↗

— Catherine Crier

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Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. ↗

— Bob Edwards

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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. ↗

— Al Franken

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