“I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.” PeopleDifferentMightSpaceConflictDespairIntellectualToolsSeekingDebateFamiliarAppropriateDivisionConventionalComfortingTacticsFrameworkAxesSimplificationDichotomyPersuading Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.” WorldNeedsDifferentSocialReligiousSpaceCommonExistenceGroupsConflictAgreeSignificantContributionCanadaGovernanceHarmoniousDissensionSocial GroupsAgree Upon Author:Aga Khan IV
“Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.” MindSpaceStruggleSkyConflictHarmDisappearPleasant Author:Gautama Buddha
“There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.” PersonsSpaceConflictChaosPhonesMoodMakersMailDragOxygenVisitorsInterruptionsBurglarsIntrudersChasers Author:Toni Cade Bambara
“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.” FactsPoliticalSpaceEventsObjectsConflictGainsStartingRadioInterpretationWarfareRepresentationStrategicPresentationRadarCompleting Author:Paul Virilio
“There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.” WorldNeedsIdeasHappensOrderSpaceExampleCreationThis WorldConflictConnectionsSeparationGapsGodlyWithdrawalKabbalahCreation Of The World Author:Matisyahu
“We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes.” BelievePurposeSpaceDealsExampleActivityConflictPeacefulJointsCivilians Author:Vladimir Putin
“It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.” WantTryingMayLeftSpaceRoomsClearCryConflictHarderResolveHouseholdFamily LifeMarginsChoresFragmentedHousehold Chores Book:A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry
“Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.” JoyProcessCommunityDifferencesSpaceIssuesRelationshipConflictConnectedStaying Author:Bell Hooks