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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
J. Donald Walters
You
Peace
Denial
Problems
Victory
Will
Find
Courageously
Escape
Trying
Them
Confronting
Your
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie
Natural
Impress
Though
He
Mere
Tales
Also
Him
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Scientist
Were
His
Laboratory
Child
Natural Phenomena
Confronting
Technician
Phenomena
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.
Life
Courage
Vision
Mind
Matters
Own
Our
Everything
Moral
Must
Rarely
Individual
Ideas
Himself
His
Intellectual
Survive
Begins
Committees
Room
To Survive
Confronting
Produced
Conscience
Things
Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
Alice Merton
You
People
World
Rules
Feel
Like
Make
Always
According
Artist
Human
Being
Confronting
Means
Act
Who
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
Faith
Respect
Hate
People
State
Machinery
Find
Individual
Very
Gets
Confronting
Connected
Deep
Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.
Ari Melber
Definitely
Democratic
Mobilize
Republicans
Confronting
Base
The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.
Arlen Specter
People
Problems
Care
Party
Nation
Our
American
Which
Confronting
American People
The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.
Ashleigh Barty
You
Yourself
Feelings
About
Open
Most
Talk
Up
Confronting
Your
Thing
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
Life
Me
You
People
Thought
Seen
Run
One Of The Things
Some
Similar
Tends
Couple
Because
Boy
Very
Times
Get
Roles
Happen
Sensitive
Confronting
Working
Working Life
Found
Things
Early
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
War
Political
Country
Important
National
Fighting
Too
Our
Security
Prevent
Football
Protect
Returning
Reduced
Terrorists
Insurgency
National Security
Afghanistan
Confronting
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
Claude Chabrol
Woman
Men
Proper
Inexhaustible
Subject
Confronting
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
Fareed Zakaria
Comforting
Believe
Conservatives
Some
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Still
Truths
Confronting
Used
Hard
I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
George C. Wolfe
Challenges
Humanity
Approaching
Before
Living
Never
Perpetually
Craft
Artist
Interested
Places
Them
Confronted
Confronting
Much
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush
War
Threat
Some
Winning
Could
Argued
Crucial
Terror
Iraq
Contrary
Against
Confronting
Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.
Henry Cejudo
Life
Time
Problems
Father
My Life
Father Figure
Run
Would
Having
Point
Instead
Longest
Longest Time
Empty
Felt
Without
Up
Hole
Depressed
Them
Confronting
Noticed
Figure
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Away
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James Surowiecki
Risks
Reward
Reap
Defense
Tremendous
Those
Able
Rarely
Supposed
Contractors
Which
While
Confronting
Profits
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
Jeff Goodell
Will
First
White
White House
Sign
Crisis
Obama
About
He
House
Revealed
How
Climate
Whether
Confronting
Serious
Heroes are a way to remove yourself from what may be difficult concepts to talk about in your life. They're a way to get some distance and have an experience in a theater where you're confronting those issues in a way that's safer for your psyche.
Joe Russo
Life
You
Experience
Yourself
Heroes
Remove
Difficult
Distance
Way
Those
Some
About
Talk
Concepts
Safer
Issues
Get
May
Psyche
Where
Theater
Confronting
Your
The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act is executable and, rather than dismissing criticism, should examine it in good faith and work to serve the needs of the people. President Obama must approach this problem like a CEO confronting a very bad product launch.
John Delaney
Work
Faith
Good
Needs
People
Problem
Care
Criticism
President
Approach
President Obama
Ensure
Bad
Launch
Must
Obama
Administration
Promptly
Examine
Rather
Like
Very
Than
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Central
Confronting
CEO
Should
Act
Product
Premise
Good Faith
Serve
If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.
John Oates
Needs
Something
Through
Feel
Manager
Done
Confronting
Shows like 'Empire'... one of the most profound powerful things is that there's a gay male character who is loved. That character is going to save a lot of people's lives. Black families are confronting the idea that a gay black character can be human.
Justin Simien
Character
Gay
People
Black
Idea
Powerful
Empire
Like
Most
Male
Lot
Families
Going
Human
Loved
Confronting
Who
Shows
Lives
Things
Profound
Save
One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.
Karyn Kusama
Me
World
Behavior
Pleasures
About
Uncertain
Adulthood
Know
How
How Much
Been
Human
Human Behavior
Little
Confronting
Much
Really
Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
Laura Wasser
Custody
People
Ending
Every
Relationships
About
Through
Counselor
Support
Failing
Practiced
Dealing
Issues
Going
Just
Social
Them
Confronting
Worker
Therapist
A smart black guy is confronting for most people. But that's on them, not on me.
Laurence Fishburne
Me
People
Smart
Black
Guy
Most
Them
Confronting
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.
Liu Xiaobo
Time
Needs
Oppression
Police
Job
Face
Prison
Oppose
Our
Spending
Spending Time
Those
Only
Part
Also
Learn
How
Opposition
Dictatorships
Movement
Confronting
Us
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
Michael Trucco
Myself
Birthday
Fears
Airplane
Out
Promised
Would
Because
Interest
Confronting
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