#encounter

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#bullies #encounter #exist #fortunate #however

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#behaviors #contact #encounter #estates #how

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

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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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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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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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