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“The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.”

“Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.”

War Facts Class Break Gone Economic Conflict Benefits Spring Connections Tendencies Barriers Horizon Breaking Down Intercourse

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict breaks out, the males are much better at reconciling. In a study done in Finland, children who had quarreled were asked how much longer they intended to be angry at one another. The boys proudly said: "Oh, at least one or two days." The girls said "forever".”

Children Said Two Done Hands Girl Boys Break Forever Study Violence Conflict Female Angry Males Strife Two Days Break Out Finland

Author:Frans de Waal

“We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.”

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Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.”

Feelings Break Emotional Conflict Assuming Assumption Household Hypnotic

Author:Vernon Howard

“If you have conflicts, everything breaks down in society. Kids can't go to school. Basic health can't be looked after. Every aspect of society falls apart.”

Ifs Kids School Fall Break Conflict Aspect Breaking Down Falling Apart

Author:Richard Branson

“Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."”

People Real Break Technology Television Conflict Hot Denial Planes Jet New Technology Jet Planes

Author:Howard Rheingold

“The purpose of any military is to kill people and break things. It's not to advance anybody's social agenda. It's not a laboratory for the left's social ideas or playgrounds. It is to kill people and break things, and the second rule is that the aggressor in any conflict sets the rules. And if they violate an existing rule book, then so be it. The aggressor sets the rules, and right now, Putin is setting the rules.”

People Book Purpose Break Military Conflict Laboratory

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.”

Real Fighting Peace Break Conflict Authority Break Through Ubuntu Phony Real Power Real Questions

Author:Karen Nussbaum

“Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.”

Mind Heart Soul Fall Break Conflict Army Revenge Empires Humiliation Heart And Mind Heart Break

Author:Janet Morris