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• It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife

  Confucius

  Bitterness

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• A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

  William Faulkner

  Bells, Way, Strive

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• Multiplicity without strife is joy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Joy, Multiplicity

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Eye, Son, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Goal, Strive

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• The painter strives and competes with nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Strive, Painter

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.20, eKitap Projesi

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• The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hussein, Occupation, Execution

  "Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism" by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.

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• The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Public Opinion, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway
  The mind of man, must always make her way;
  Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,
  Is all her malice worth a single thought.
  The wise have not the will, nor fools the power,
  To stop her headstrong course; within the hour
  Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife
  Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

  Charles Churchill

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Charles Churchill, “The Author”

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• The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

  Lord Acton

  Rewards, Release

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• Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.

  Jeremy Collier

  Depressing, Passion, Men

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• the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Tea, Sound

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• The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

  Agnes Repplier

  Simple, Thinking, Personality

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• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Role Models, Envy, Emulation

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Passion, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Depth, Blind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

  Horace

  Envy, Competition, Crow

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• Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger.

  Horace

  Play, Fierce

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• A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

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• May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?

  Adolf Hitler

  Rights, Building Up, Community

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• I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

  Catherine the Great

  Opinion, Conflict, Ends

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• The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.

  Alice Meynell

  Heart, Endless, Streams

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Loneliness, Culture

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• God abides in each commandment by His gracious power. "God is hidden in His commandments", says St. Mark the Ascetic. God helps everyone who strives to keep His commandments. That God abides in us we know by the Spirit, which He has given us. This means that a Christian is never alone, but that he lives and works together with the Thrice-Holy God.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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