“ He needed to make deals. a deal meant an opponent, an opponent meant confrontation and confrontation was the source of his strength. ”
- Peter Evans- Copy
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“ Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. ”
- Jane Meyerding- Copy
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“ I don't know that it is so much how someone else is going to read you, but more a matter of how you are going to project yourself, and psych your own attitudes. ”
- Richard Brooks- Copy
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“ His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity. ”
- Boris Yeltsin- Copy
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“ Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ The dialogue of cultures can be stronger than the confrontation of the inhumanities disguised as a clash of civilizations. ”
- Emile Lahud- Copy
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“ In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ”
- Lord Hailsham- Copy
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“ However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
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“ It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. ”
- John Gray- Copy
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“ The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. ”
- Clarence Day- Copy
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“ The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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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. ”
- Malcolm Boyd- Copy
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“ Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. ”
- Ernest Becker- Copy
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“ For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death. ”
- Martin Heidegger- Copy
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“ Just a few months before, the Korean war had broken out, and for the first time I saw direct confrontation with the Communists. It was too disturbing. The cold war looked as if it were about to get hot. I knew then I had to reverse my earlier position… ”
- Hans Bethe- Copy
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“ Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again… ”
- Stephen Covey- Copy
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“ While the hero is acclaimed by others, courage entails a steadfast 'in spite of' — a self-confrontation in which we put ourselves on the line in an act of 'nevertheless.' Courage, then, has less to do with accomplishment than with the way we approach life. ”
- W. Paul Jones- Copy
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“ At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
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