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Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

Rush Limbaugh

Country, Talking, Unity

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The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.

Basilea Schlink

Humble, Thinking, Appreciate

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A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.

Joseph Alexander Leighton

Philosophy, Reality, Men

Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.

Kenneth Waltz

War, Waiting, Unity

Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.81, Columbia University Press

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All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

Michael Moorcock

Kings, Fall, Age

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Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

Kurt Schwitters

Art, Expression, Intuition

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But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

Empedocles

Fire, Air, Water

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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Terry Eagleton

Spring, Desire, Strive

Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.145, John Wiley & Sons

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Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life.

Stefan Zweig

Pain, Heart, Roots

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Nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.

Johann Gottfried Herder

Moving, Views, Kingdoms

"'Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit' ('Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man')". Book by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated by T. Churchill. Book 5, 1803.

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To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

James Martineau

Angel, Sacrifice, Sorrow

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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Beautiful, Art, Truth Is

"Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 113), 1986.

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Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

Richard Crashaw

Sweet, Art, Wine

Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

War, Money Power, Unhappiness

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Polygamy causes a lot of strife

Yoshiko Sakurai

Causes, Polygamy

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Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

Thomas Gray

Views, Comfort, Hue

Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.178

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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

Yishan Wong

Mean, Community, News

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It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Distance, Government, Rome

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Leo Tolstoy

Understanding, Humanity, Obscure

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Work, Strive

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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Will Durant

Harmony, Universal

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Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Ovid

Beauty, Modesty

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Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Samuel Johnson

Travel, Views, Toil

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.548

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Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

Izaak Walton

Void, Beloved, Pleasure

Izaak Walton (1878). “The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies”

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With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

Sheri S. Tepper

Past, Expectations, Soul

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