Reconcile
To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.
To bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.
To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.
To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.
To become reconciled.
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Reconcile Quotations
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
Joseph Stiglitz
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
Louis XIV
Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
Edvard Munch
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.
Roy H. Williams
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater
Reconcile Translations
reconcile in Italian is conciliare
reconcile in Latin is concilio
reconcile in Spanish is amistar, reconciliar
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