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• The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

  Ken MacLeod

  Responsibility, Ideas, Justice

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• Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

  David Attenborough

  God, Difficult, Notion

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• Our day-to-day lives recording and touring aren't that different from those of Metallica, even though the perceived worldview is totally different. So that can be a difficult thing to reconcile sometimes.

  Robin Pecknold

  Different, Sometimes, Metallica

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• He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.

  Maimonides

  Men, Thinking, Opposites

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

  John Rawls

  Philosophy, Political, Our Society

  John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .

  George Bodenheimer

  Sports, Football, Running

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• My whole life has been based on two principles: the love of the Church to which I am united, and the love of my country, which I adore. If I do not care whether I am sentenced to ten years imprisonment or to be shot, it is not because I am a fanatic... Since I joined the Catholic Church my sole object has been to reconcile my country to that Church which I believe to be the One True Church.

  Leonid Feodorov

  Country, Believe, Years

  "The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity" by Francis McCullagh, (p. 238), 1924.

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• It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Betrayal, Principles

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• As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

  Katha Pollitt

  Christian, Country, Teaching

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• We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fragments, Seasons

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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• Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

  William Wordsworth

  Faith, Evil, Humans

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• The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

  J. William Fulbright

  Political, Program, Difficulty

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• I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Two, Soul, Decay

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

  Margaret Deland

  Doe, Habit

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Honor, Way, Creation

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Inquiry, Fields

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Ideas, Orbit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

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• The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Wrath, Way

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• The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Men, Suffering

  Sigmund Freud, Scientific Literature Corporation (1961). “The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Pain, Iron, Giving

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• That movie was my girlfriend. That was my girl." I knew there was going to be initial anger. As a matter of fact, when I was deciding to do Footloose that was one of the first things that I had to realize. First of all, I had to figure out a human connection to it but then I also had to reconcile that I was going to get beat up a little bit on this a little bit.

  Craig Brewer

  Girl, Connections, Littles

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• And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Years

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Brave New World”, Spark Notes

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• How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.

  Douglas Adams

  Past, Differences, Mind

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