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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Food, Destiny, Thinking

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• My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Healthy, Affection, Tense

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• Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Political, Movement

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  Abdallah II

  Running, Military, Pieces

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• Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation.

  Klaus Kinkel

  Mean, Political, Terror

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• This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Land, Effort, Way

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Europe, Important, Nuclear

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• War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

  Alva Myrdal

  Military, War, Preparation

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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• Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Mean

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• Truth demands confrontation. It must be loving confrontation, but there must be confrontation nonetheless.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Demand

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• An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Evil, Circumstances

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.

  Drake

  Confidence, Hater, Humble

  Song: A Scorpio's Mind

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• "Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Pain, Mean, Mind

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• Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  People, Return, Causes

  "Gaddafi website publishes 'last will' of Libyan ex-leader". www.bbc.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Hands, Order

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• Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

  Penn Jillette

  Real, People, Conversation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing that I learned that helped me deal with human behavior is confrontation, and I'm not that great with confrontation at all. But once I started to be O.K. with that, the better everybody's life got.

  Kenny Chesney

  Behavior, Deals, Humans

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.

  Mike Rowe

  Eric, Made, Brown

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• It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Character, Stage

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Men, Obscurity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.54, Vintage

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• Truth carries with it confrontation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Carrie

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

  Arthur Scargill

  Want, Fool, Strikes

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