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Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

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The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

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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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Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #endurance #fortitude #goals #patience

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us. ↗

— Steven Redhead

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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. ↗

— Rowan Williams

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