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Letter "C" » confront
«Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.»
«I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are da»
Author: Chavela Vargas
| Keywords:
boast, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, confront, das, homosexuals, respected, stigma
«I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.»
Author: David Cronenberg
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«At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.»
Author: Georges Bataille
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assistance, confront, core, give in, guaranteed, indefinitely, in general, leap, postpones, recoil, recoils, The Object of
«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
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abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.»
Author: J. Michael Straczynski
(Producer)
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Joy
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confront, delirious, intent, intentions, intents, proves, reflect
«All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
anxiety, confront, essence, in common, leaders, major, unequivocally, willingness
«Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined»
«In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
century, chief, christ, Christianity, coming, confront, consider, dangers, forgiveness, ghost, Ghost in, holy, Holy Ghost, inquiries, inquiry, politics, regeneration, repentance, salvation, The Chief, The Coming
«Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.»
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