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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

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.


Asa Gray


#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered

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

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


#ago #among #combination #compare #concepts

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

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.


Tom Petty


#does #encountered #heals #i #incredible

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.


Albert Einstein


#always #encountered #mediocre #minds #opposition

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


Margot Fonteyn


#encountered #first #first time #great #minor

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

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.


Melissa Etheridge


#been #cancer #encountered #i #never






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