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• It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Inability

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• The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Peace, Essence, Opposites

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• First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, he cannot very well adhere to the old Biblical recommendation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Hands, Careers

  "Mein Kampf".

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• I’ve found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I’m a Republican who happens to be gay…versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.

  Carl DeMaio

  Gay, Acceptance, Men

  "Straight talk about gay Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio" By Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2014.

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• The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.

  George F. Kennan

  Jealous, Eye, Russia

  George F. Kennan (2014). “The Kennan Diaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the opposites. . . . It seems to me to be the Holy Spirit's task and charge to reconcile and reunite the opposites in the human individual through a special development of the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Son, Opposites, Evil

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• We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself. There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.

  Robert Leckie

  Men, Squares, Soul

  "Fictional character: Robert Leckie". "The Pacific", 2010.

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• It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Advice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

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• Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Underestimate, Power Of Words

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.494, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Science, Effort

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.248, Knopf

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• No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

  Walter Pater

  Italian, Renaissance, Ancient

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family.... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Mean, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

  Nhat Hanh

  Party, People, Listening

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• The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Philosophy, Esoteric, Tradition

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.550, Penguin

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• For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Punishment, Rejection

  William Sloane Coffin “A Passion for the Possible”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

  Georges Bizet

  Christian, Religious, Taken

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• I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

  George Santayana

  Death, Finals, Ends

  George Santayana (2003). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the heart of the covenant?' Ellis's answer is that the covenant of Israel with God has been shattered by the creation of a state at the expense of Palestinian life in the land. It can only be renewed by a new ethic and practice of justice that reconcile these two people, who have become irrevocably linked together in the land, either for good or for ill.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Book, Heart, Two

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• As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stars, Animal, Essence

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar (p. 8), September 19, 2006.

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• The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people... The Roman Pontiff cannot and ought not to reconcile himself or agree with, progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

  Pope Pius IX

  Civilization, Ideas, People

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• Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

  Mariella Frostrup

  World, Incompatibility, Seeing

  "My partner's negativity gets me down" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

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• Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

  Theodore Zeldin

  Gun, People, Bombs

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.96, Random House

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• Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.

  Roy H. Williams

  Science, Economy, Mechanic

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• In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

  Matt Chandler

  Essence

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• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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