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"No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil." »Robert Lynd
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"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
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"All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men." »Hilaire Belloc
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." »Thomas Paine
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"conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional." »Max Lucado
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." »Winston Churchill
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"Commitment in the face of conflict produces character." »Unknown
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"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough
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"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." »Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." »William Ellery Channing
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"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris
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"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe." »Percival
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"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self." »Erich Fromm
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." »Walter Savage Landor
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." »Paulo Freire
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception." »Emile Coue
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." »Tao Le Ching
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"Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict." »Paxton Blair
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"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." »Herbert Butterfield
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"What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict." »Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
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"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)" »Gerald R. Ford
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"What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough
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