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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 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

#being #city #encountered #end #ever

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#day #encountered #event #life #mind

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

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

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#american society #as far as #became #concerned #encountered

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#common #competencies #cover #distinct #encountered

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#encountered #first #first time #great #minor

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#encountered #going #i #lands #learned

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