"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."
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"To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict."
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"Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative."
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"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument."
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"On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence"
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"We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come."
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"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
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"Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed."
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"Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten."
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"Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution."
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"Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty."
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"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
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"Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them."
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"Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe."
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"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
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"It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions."
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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
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"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord."
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"those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend."
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"Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful."
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