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• Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, World, Cold

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• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  John Deacon

  Personality, Four, Bounds

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• When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  War, Unique, Hot

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• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  Mary Douglas

  Steps, Next, Arguing

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

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• The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history

  Harrison Salisbury

  Running, Powerful, Sacrifice

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

  Ken Livingstone

  War, America, Issues

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

  Herb Caen

  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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• An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Causes, Emotion

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.159, Penguin

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• Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

  James Russell Lowell

  Blue, Weather, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.19

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• Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Truth, May, Contradicting

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• I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

  Rupert Friend

  People, World, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

  Walton Goggins

  Portraits, Narcissistic, States

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  Harold H. Greene

  Thinking, Law, Justice

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• I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

  Madeleine Albright

  Believe, Civilization, Civilized

  "Online Extra: Madeleine Albright on Democracy and Force". Q&A, www.bloomberg.com. December 23, 2002.

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• Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

  Debra Evans

  Dream, Expectations, Heaven

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• Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

  John Stott

  Two, Persecution, Value Systems

  John R. W. Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1998). “The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character”, Intervarsity Press

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• Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Judging, Bows

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

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• Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Party, Past

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

  John Updike

  Ambiguity, Extremes

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Book, Men, Two

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.34

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• We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Law, Needs, Morality

  "I Learn". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1976.

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