#encounter

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#art #encountered #first #how #i

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#accomplish #against #courage #encountered #maintained

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#human #human love #love #love is #often

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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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

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance. ↗

— Evo Morales

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#know #man #mood #she #tired