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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

~E. W. Howe

Topics: Algebra Convince Difficult Encounter Geometry Hard He High-School Lot More Problems Student Than Those Will

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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

~Eden Robinson

Topics: Anchored Brought Discovery Eight Encounter Evening First June Known Large Natives People Published Salmon Ship Them Two Vancouver Visited Were Who Wrote

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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Appearance Between Detect Difference Difficult Eccentricity Encounter Evidence First Historical History Interpretation Large Makes Needed New Often Originality Radically Segment Studies Time

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That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

~Edward Everett

Topics: Absence Apparent Battle Could Doubt Encounter Foretell Fought Great Impossible Lee Must Part Perhaps Plan Precise Real Scene Soon

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There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.

~Ehud Olmert

Topics: Encounter Existential Greater Israel Issues Nowhere Office Oval Oval Office Than Understanding

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Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: About Call Circumstances Complete Encounter Lives Objectivity Option Our Our Lives Ourselves People Reduce Respond See Subjective Subjectivity Therefore Way Whether I See

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No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Topics: Acquired Adversity After Alive Art Being Bitter Dares Difficulties Difficulty Discourage Dismay Each Encounter Fate Give Greater He Higher Him His Hurdles Man Obstacle Obstacles Rises Skill Strength Trouble Troubles Try Who

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The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Before Between Brief Comic Connects David Director Dots Encounter Lean Lost Love Melodrama Mood Movies New Richard Standards Sunrise Thoroughly Three Translation Yearning

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It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Broaden Daily Daily Life Different Encounter Facebook Fear Fond Help Hope Imaginary Life Listening May Networks People Perspectives Services Set Social Social Networks Than Turning Us Users Will

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We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Across Because Crowded Defining Encounter Enter Experiences Fabric Face Lack Late Light Most Our Perfection Recognize Richest Room Running Shine Stir Tear Things Through Uncommon Unique Us Way Whose Wonder

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