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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
-Proverb
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Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
-Proverb
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More will mean worse.
-Martin Amis
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
-Marian Anderson
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The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
-Thurman W. Arnold
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
-John M. Barrie
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All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
-Ethel Lynn Beers
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
-Hilaire Belloc
The Silence of the Sea
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A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.
-Bhagavad Gita
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The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. Matthew 26:41
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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (Romans 7:19
-Bible
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I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7
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Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10
-Bible
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You are at enmity with yourself.
-Jacob Boehme
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
-Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
-Nathaniel Branden
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
-Jacob Bronowski
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When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
-Sir Frederick Browning
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
-Martin Buber
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
-Thomas Carlyle
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
-Giovani della Casa
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The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Books about Conflict
