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“I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.”

Mean Different Conflict

Author:PJ Harvey

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

Ifs World Writing Different Ends Sometimes Stories Together Given Ability Conflict Difficulty Accidents

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.”

Different Reality Together Suffering Sides Pieces Land Conflict Heavy Destined Ongoing Small Pieces

Author:Ariel Sharon

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

“Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices”

Persons Different Sometimes Choices Individual Difficult Conflict Meetings Loyalty Harbors Allegiance Difficult Choices

Author:Amin Maalouf

“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.”

People Ifs Way Different Facts Would Be Law Results Liberty Economic Achieve Position Materials Conflict Equal Treats Investing Equality Libertarian Inequality

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.”

Thinking World Trying Kind Different Community Views Century Perspective Conflict International 21st Century Alliances International Community Different Views Having Strength

Author:Madeleine Albright

“I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.”

Want I Can Different Culture Memories Emotion Comedy Taste Conflict Sight Canvas Different Tastes

Book:Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt

Source: Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

Firsts Different Problem Running Views Groups Conflict Method Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

World Different Reason Focus Conflict Percent Contentious

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

World Different Matter Reason Realizing Common Race Focus Conflict Percent No Matter What Complicated Gender Backgrounds Inability Contentious

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.”

Different War Interest Military Conflict Bloodshed

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.”

World Way Love Doe Different Marriage Conflict Different Ways

Book:The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.”

Trying Wells Two Different Might Moving Desire Force Conflict Equal Horse Contradictory Opposing Moving In Different Directions

Book:Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential

Source: Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential

“What people need and what they want may be very different.”

People Want Needs May Different Conflict

Book:Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

“This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.”

Knows Men Littles I Can Two Different Imagine Atheism Fields Ignorance Conflict Judgment Bases Species Excuse Denial Imagine That Science And Religion

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.”

People Different Law Values Culture Conflict Direct Terrorism Protection Peaceful Mutual Resolution Civilians Rule Of Law Mutual Respect Win Win Different Faiths Peaceful Resolution

Author:Kofi Annan

“I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.”

People Men Want Years Mean Different Country Clear Violence Conflict Hundred Men And Women Years Ago Honestly Afghan

Author:Hillary Clinton