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“The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."”

Feelings Reality Ought Conflict Paradox Quantum

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.”

Ifs Humans Wish Principles Ought Conflict Fundamentals Affair Negotiation Misunderstanding Utopia Pointless Fundamental Principles

Author:Umberto Eco

“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”

Thinking Giving Interest Ought Conflict Satisfaction Dues Compromise Deprived Adversaries Adjustment Conflicting Ideas

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.”

People Stories Differences Religious Creation Ought Conflict Consequence Strife Creation Stories

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.”

Knows Men Littles I Can Prayer Ought Praying Battle Conflict Fierce Because I Can

Book:The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan

Source: The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan

“Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.”

Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)