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• In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Anger, People

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• In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

  Piers Anthony

  Sex, Believe, America

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

  Bob Balaban

  Watches, Exciting, Close Encounters

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

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• Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

  Hermann Hesse

  Years, Age, Hours

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• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

  Lucretius

  War, Literature, Pleasure

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Mind, Literature, Moments

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• Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Talking, Ideas, Leader

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• At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Real, Firsts, Scientist

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• Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Ideas, Two, Cooperation

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• If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

  Billy Higgins

  People, Playing Music, Levels

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• A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

  Robert Emmet

  Memories, Men, Mind

  Charles Phillips, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Robert Emmet (1840). “Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan”, p.365

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Rivals, Advantage

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Bully, Worst

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• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  Vin Diesel

  Thanksgiving, Thank God, Fans

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• Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Learning

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• When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

  Al Franken

  Advice, Comedy, Belief

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin

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• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Vision, Transition, Ease

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• Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

  Albert Pike

  Brotherhood, Suffering, Sorrow

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  Patricia Heaton

  Week, Situation, Knows

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• I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Media, Literature, Interviews

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• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Travel, Purpose

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

  George Jean Nathan

  Tired, Men, Literature

  George Jean Nathan (1925). “The American Mercury”

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• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Views

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• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Parent, Forever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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