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• There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Character, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

  Frantz Fanon

  Block, What Matters, Issues

  Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Silence, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.28, Vintage

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• Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

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  Sherry Argov

  People, Energy, Negative

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Character, Fighting, Acting

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• Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into
  a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what
  is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into
  knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality
  incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Dream, Children, Ignorance

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• We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Games, Play

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• We are not going to allow to a dictator who is sitting on us to determine the means of confrontation against him. We are not asking his approval to be free. I hope Robert Mugabe, a sick and old man, you are listening. We mean business.

  Arthur Mutambara

  Mean, Men, Sick

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• My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Courage, Two

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

  Eben Moglen

  War, Law, Patents

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• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Powerful, Military, War

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

  Andrew Young

  Country, Eye, Land

  "Tongue Tied". www.foxnews.com. April 3, 2001.

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• Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.

  Michael Leunig

  Father, Imagination, World

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• It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

  Nate Parker

  Healing, Native American, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Spring, Soil

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• In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

  David Brooks

  Character, Self, Views

  "Why character, not career success, is key to a life of consequence". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 14, 2015.

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• We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Dark, Self, Shadow

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• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Leader, Typical, Campaigns

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• Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

  Corey Flintoff

  Russia, Turkeys, Allies

  "Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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• When you work with an actor, it's cool because they know what it's like to be directed themselves. Jodie directed a scene with me and Taylor that was when she starts talking to me again in prison and it's our first actual confrontation that we have, where some stuff comes out.

  Laura Prepon

  Talking, Actors, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Expectations, Fundamentals

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• The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Brutality, Rewards

  "Letter to My Son" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. July 4, 2015.

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