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We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.


Kathy Acker


#censorship #encountered #exactly #get #just

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.


K. Eric Drexler


#critics #else #encountered #few #having

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.


George H. W. Bush


#eight #encountered #his #i #learned

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.


Edward Hoagland


#alone #bears #black #brotherly #case

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.


Chris Van Hollen


#because #encountered #expected #hope #iraq

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.


A. J. Liebling


#came #concepts #correct #devices #early

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.


Tobias Wolff


#anti-semitism #became #because #book #brother

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


Bob Edwards


#encountered #everything #had #his #parking

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.


Patrick Marber


#art #encountered #first #how #i

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


#against #allows #also #because #certain






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