Confronting Quotes

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The child should love everything he learns. Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear. Once this love has been kindled, all… — Maria Montessori
We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given… — Margaret Heffernan
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. — Sam Brownback
A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists. — Deepak Chopra
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,… — Alan Watts
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power — Andrea Dworkin
Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is… — Rene Daumal
Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is… — Arsene Wenger
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they… — Henri Nouwen
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the… — James F. Byrnes
Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of… — Irving Kristol
Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. — Margaret Spellings
The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite… — Wallace Shawn
I have that gene mutation too and itâ€™s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldnâ€™t call it the brave choice. I actually… — Melissa Etheridge
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least… — Fred Thompson

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