"There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden."
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"Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason."
"Where there is no conflict, there is no fault."
"The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved."
"All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight."
"The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous."
"We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals."
"I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives."
"I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing."
"There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware."
"Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence."
"There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion."
"Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives."