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- Nov 07, 2020
Confronting Quotes
Looking straight at what's hard to face.
This page gathers reflections on confrontation across very different fields — scientific theory, media self-awareness, and horror's role in processing darkness. It connects to Crisis quotes for readers exploring similar tension.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
- Extrapolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Bisping's whole life is a film scene. He's always acting. Confronting me at UFC 213, it makes me laugh. It's a bit clownish.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's end-of-life and palliative care services are a national travesty. That a public debate on this crisis is so sorely lacking has much to do with our fear of confronting dying and death.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
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- Nov 07, 2020