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• We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

  Anthony Eden

  War, Egypt, Armed Conflict

  1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.

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• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Brother, Ambition

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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Glowing, Training

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Brave

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• Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Years, Soil, Violence

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• Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Dangerous, Science And Religion, Foe

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• All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Self, Experience, World

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• I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

  Giovanni della Casa

  Men, He Man, Divine

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• Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moving, Eras, Negotiation

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• The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

  Clark Moustakas

  Men, Mind, Arena

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• Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

  Kofi Annan

  Law, People, Peaceful

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

  Martin Buber

  Men, Silence, Soul

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• The archenemy is the arch stupid!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stupid, Arches

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• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Running, Believe, Israel

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• But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Self, Civilization, Giving

  Herbert Butterfield (1953). “Christianity, Diplomacy and War”, London : Epworth Press

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• Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

  Richard DeVos

  God, Insightful, Earth

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• My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

  Tom DeLay

  War, Terrorism, Palestinian

  "Delay Leads Intense Push for Jewish Voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 01, 2004.

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Honor, Groups, Indifference

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• ... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Kids, Fighting

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Care, Interest, My Own

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• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

  David Seabury

  Feelings, Modern, States

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• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

  Emile Coue

  Winning, Imagination, Will Power

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