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“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”

Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. Since the Iraq conflict began, the Army has been pressing ahead to produce the armor necessary at a rate that they believe - it's a greatly expanded rate from what existed previously, but a rate that they believe is the rate that is all that can be accomplished at this moment.”

Knows Want Believe Has Beens War Moments Might Wish Produce Conflict Army Rate Iraq Accomplished Armor

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.”

“When a novelist or screenwriter is looking for a subject, the element he's seeking is conflict. Conflict makes drama. Conflict produces great characters and memorable scenes. So war is a natural topic.”

War Character Natural Subjects Produce Drama Scene Conflict Elements Seeking Novelists Memorable Topics Screenwriters Great Character

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.”

Want Art Hard Artist Language Produce Hard Work Conflict Capitalism Selling Consumers Firm Capitalist Accused Selling Out Sold Out

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.”

Produce Listening Conflict Gains Midst Absolutely Nothing

Book:The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets

Source: The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets

“Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.”

Sometimes Levels Results Produce Conflict Track Confusion

Author:Ciaran Hinds

“Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?”

Want Mind Kind States Waiting Quality Our Lives Produce Conflict State Of Mind Habitual Waiter Inner Conflict

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.”

Self Hands Suffering Violence Produce Conflict Behavior Destruction Separation Engaged Sociology Self Destruction Pathology

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.”

Ifs Leadership Results Behinds Security Produce Needed Conflict Overcoming Calm Valuable Intense Uplifting Lasting Relaxation Disturbed

Author:Carl Jung

“That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.”

World Art Seems Literature Natural Love Is Effort Struggle Produce Conflict Obvious Cinema Works Of Art Worthwhile Conquest World Literature

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.”

Mean Differences Produce Conflict Areas Unions Russia Cooperation Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.”

Produce Depends Conflict Waste Resources Misery Climate Climate Change Scales Ideology Governance Scarcity Large Scale Armed Conflict

Author:Steven Pinker

“We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.”

Looks Mean Children Values Produce Conflict Behavior Adults Patterns Handle Nonviolence Nurturing Child Rearing

Author:Elise M. Boulding