Albert Einstein
Physicist
"From discord, find Harmony."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord."
Aesop
Fabulist
"He who incites to strife is worse than he who takes part in it."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand."
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"The whole discord of this world consists in discords."
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"Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
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"My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt."
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"The fairest harmony springs from discord."
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"National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt."
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"I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord."
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"Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid."
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"Better a holy discord than a profane concord."
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