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“The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.”

Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies

“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

“There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.”

“I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.”

Done Interest Happened Subjects Huge Directors Conflict Territory Conflict Of Interest Sketchy

Author:Aaron Rose

“Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.”

Years Moral Subjects Conflict Blue Prepared Illness Diets Vitality Bolts Overwork Intemperance

Book:The Healing of Persons

Source: The Healing of Persons

“There's going to be a lot of remedies. [Donald Trump] is also subject to other conflicts laws.The bribery laws are intended to prevent conflicts, for example. He's subject to criminal law. He's subject to civil law. He's going to be subject to litigation. He's already in a lot of cases. This is going to come up in existing litigation and there's going to be new litigation.”

Law Cases Subjects Example Trump Conflict Come Up Criminals Remedy Bribery Criminal Law

Author:Norman L. Eisen

“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.”

Ideas Religion Religious Subjects Conflict Tradition Statements Fixed Science And Religion Domain Symbolic Religious Traditions

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.”

Thinking Writing Problem Science Force Interesting Subjects Hard Work Conflict Harder Data Contradiction Resolve Most Interesting Work Harder Discontinuity

Author:Anthony F. C. Wallace

“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”

War Literature Subjects Conflict Fortune Inconstancy

Book:The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

Source: The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed

“The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.”

Mind Heart Doe Desire Subjects Conflict Command Rulers Subconscious Subjective

Author:William Thomas Walsh