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• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  Vernon Howard

  Perception, Conscious

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  Albert Einstein

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

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• Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Earth, Afar, Realizing

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• If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Trying, Different

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Unity

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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• Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Heart, Men

  Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature, originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden

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• My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.

  Billy Zane

  Eye, Editing, Roots

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism. And if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries all over the world struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops ask you're going to see all kinds of international conflict.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Struggle, Land

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

  Emily Yoffe

  Believe, People, Innovation

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". Q&As with Prudie, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.

  Zachary Levi

  Roles, Chuck, Scheduling

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I don't know if it's still taboo in our culture but counseling is a great thing because sometimes you need someone from the outside to sit down and go over whatever the questions or conflicts are and come to a resolution.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  Needs, Culture, Down And

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• When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.

  Ian McLeod

  Media, Trying, Not Interested

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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• Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

  Ian McLeod

  Situation, Suppliers

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.

  Martin O'Malley

  Fall, Thinking, Understanding

  "Hillary Clinton at Democratic debate: ISIS 'cannot be contained'" by MJ Lee, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and that rule number one of creative writing is you have to have conflict. But if you write about yourself mostly, then if you don't have conflict, then you create it. And the older I get, the more I realize that that's not a very smart way to do this. Not to say I'm the most self destructive person on earth, but it's easy to do.

  John Fullbright

  Smart, Writing, School

  Source: www.npr.org

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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.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Moral Behavior, Selfishness, Higher

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Serenity, Rooms

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• So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

  James Madison

  Strong, Fall, Passion

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.44

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• The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Mean, Two

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• In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Energy, Purpose

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.172, New World Library

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• That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

  Lenny Bruce

  Teacher, School, Sunday

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• I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Would Be, Difficulty, Protest

  "Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865". Book by Horst Kohl, 1903.

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• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Light, Desire

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• Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Practice, Genius, Talent

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press

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