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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

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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions. ↗

— George Carey

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There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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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

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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. ↗

— Thomas More

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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

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