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I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. -- Amos Oz
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge. -- Bill Walsh
Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace. -- Hillary Clinton
There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually. -- Marianne Williamson
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. -- Errol Flynn
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. -- Camille Paglia
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. -- Paulo Freire
There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others. -- Tessa Thompson
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians. -- Malcolm Fraser
It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change. -- Christophe de Margerie
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. -- Fred Barnes
Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today. -- Derek Blasberg
It's not that I am against the rich giving money to charities. I'm all for it, and we should think of ways of encouraging more of it. But I also believe that states, rather than individuals, are ultimately a better bet for delivering a fair and just world and reconciling differing interests. -- Noreena Hertz
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion. -- Henry Eyring
The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son, because he never saw me during that time. By the time he got up, he'd see a dent in his pillow, but by the time I got home, he was already asleep. So for three years, he had a daddy that he never saw because I had to work. -- Isaiah Washington
God was in Christ, reconciling the world. -- Lamin Sanneh
'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.' -- Terry Moore
A pacifist has a lot of difficulty reconciling pacifism with scripture. -- Mark Driscoll
Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times. -- Natalie Dormer
The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us. -- W. Scott Lineberry
This is a place for ordinary human compassion of the kind that is reconciling -- Richard Chartres
Trust in the power of Christ's Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it! -- Pope Francis
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit. -- Bill Hybels
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. -- Thomas Southerne
My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality. -- Kim Harrison
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. -- Stephen Leacock
Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits. -- Malcolm Rifkind
One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror. -- Kari Martindale
It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul. -- Matt Chandler
Consume all obstacles, heavenly fire, and give us now both hearts of flame and tongues of fire to preach Your reconciling word, for Jesus' sake -- Charles Spurgeon
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. -- Paulo Freire
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. -- William James
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science... -- David Hume
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love." -- C. S. Lewis
When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering. -- Dean Ornish
The modern public school derived from a philosophy of freedom reflected in the First Amendment ... The non-sectarian or secular public school was the means of reconciling freedom in general with religious freedom. -- William J. Brennan
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience -- Douglas Coupland
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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