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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Alien Common Common Sense Confronting Culture Feel Identical Myths Only Our Parts Sense Taught Underlying Universe Us

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I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

~Andrew Denton

Topics: Confronting Connected Deep Faith Find Gets Hate Individual Machinery People Respect State Very

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I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

~Anthony Carmona

Topics: Adult Area Confronting Coral Danger Fear Feeling Felt Forest Greatest Rain Recall Reserve Running Rural Sense Snake Someone Through Times Ugly Which You Young Young Adult I Can

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Onstage was where I felt the most confident and in control and free, and as I've gotten older, it's gotten more and more daunting. And I think that's also part of my desire to keep confronting that and pushing through to find that childlike or youthful ignorance against fear and keep at it.

~Ari Graynor

Topics: Against Also Childlike Confident Confronting Control Daunting Desire Fear Felt Find Free Gotten Ignorance Keep More More And More Most Older Onstage Part Pushing Think Through Where Youthful I Think

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The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

~Arlen Specter

Topics: American American People Care Confronting Nation Our Party People Problems Which

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If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

~Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Topics: Begins Committees Confronting Conscience Courage Everything Himself His Ideas Individual Intellectual Life Matters Mind Moral Must Our Own Produced Rarely Room Survive Things To Survive Vision

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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Allow Basis Before Confronting Corrections Errors Everyone Inevitable Late Life Make Reality Regular Regular Basis Simple Too Too Late Wrong You Yourself

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One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

~Ben Mendelsohn

Topics: Because Boy Confronting Couple Early Found Get Happen Life Me One Of The Things People Roles Run Seen Sensitive Similar Some Tends Things Thought Times Very Working Working Life You

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The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

~Bob Ainsworth

Topics: Afghanistan Confronting Country Fighting Football Important Insurgency National National Security Our Political Prevent Protect Reduced Returning Security Terrorists Too War

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What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

~Brad Carson

Topics: Address Arguably Confronting Congress Country Energy Fundamental Issue Major Major Problem Most Our Problem Saw Say Something Trying Which

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