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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. ↗

— William J. Brennan

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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

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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. ↗

— Carl Jung

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Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. ↗

— Edwin Land

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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ↗

— Karen Horney

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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. ↗

— Amos Oz

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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

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