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• Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

  Albert Pike

  Men, May, Opinion

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• A hallmark of high performance leaders is the ability to influence others through all levels and types of communication, from simple interactions to difficult conversations and more complex conflicts, in order to achieve greater team and organizational alignment. High performing leaders are able to unite diverse team members by building common goals and even shared emotions by engaging in powerful and effective dialogue.

  George Kohlrieser

  Powerful, Team, Communication

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• For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Laughing

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times”, p.343, Hackett Publishing

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• Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girl, Suffering, Levels

  "Angelina Jolie's powerful speech about ending sexual violence against women across the globe" by Evan Bartlett, www.indy100.com. June 14, 2015.

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• Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Love Is, Giving, Suffering

  Daniel C. Dennett (2006). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.254, Penguin

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• If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.

  A. C. Bradley

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.19, A. C. Bradley

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• It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

  Bruce Kent

  War, Answers, Cannibalism

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• If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Meditation

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

  Sun Tzu

  Successful, Skills, Outcomes

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• I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

  Jack Kirby

  Hurt, Party, People

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life Changing, Community, Mind

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify.

  Barack Obama

  War, Goal, Able

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the inner dialogue. It's very hard to project that onto a screen because Bond doesn't talk a lot about how he feels. But, when you have an actor like Daniel Craig, he's able to convey the inner turmoil and the conflicts. He's given Bond his humanity.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Book, Humanity, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

  Andre Braugher

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

  Romola Garai

  Motherhood, Capacity

  Source: collider.com

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• Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Thinking, Layers, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

  Cornel West

  War, Mean, Wrestling

  Source: genius.com

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• Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Track, Confusion, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

  Stephen Moyer

  Drama, Position Of Power, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Mind, Quality

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• The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Iraq, Firsts

  "Noam Chomsky on 1968". www.newstatesman.com. May 8, 2008.

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• Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Creativity, Imagination

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• The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Lessons, Firsts, Evolution

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• Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.

  Dan Quayle

  War, Kuwait, Iraq

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• When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Other Worlds, World, Trance

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