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When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
Julia Bacha
Result
Will
More
Likely
Democratic
Democratic Societies
End
Conflicts
Societies
For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.
Justin Cartwright
Seen
Drawn
Moral
Sharply
Disasters
Material
Personal
Often
Human
Conflicts
Useful
Even
Novelists
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Knowledge
People
Build
Thinking
Other
Ways
Must
Conflicts
Create
Used
Bridges
Beliefs
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Hope
Home
Family
Will
Worldly
Futile
Solve
Force
Makes
How
Cure
Impulse
Children
Conflicts
Might
Teaches
Right
Violence
Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.
Lobsang Tenzin
War
Terrorism
Challenges
World
Cause
Understanding
Exploitation
Numerous
Economic
Divisions
Major
Caused
Lack
Conflicts
Disparity
Many
Violence
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
Lord Robertson
Will
Indifference
Costly
Cruel
Between
Perhaps
Most
Importantly
Conflicts
Again
Regional
Confront
Us
Choice
Engagement
Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.
Lynn Nottage
People
Weddings
Deaths
Celebrations
Where
Happening
Conflicts
Congo
Even
Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
Madeleine Albright
Leadership
Me
You
Woman
Women
Made
First
Everybody
Top
Exactly
First Place
Been
Get
Maybe
Conflicts
Place
Might
Who
Including
Watch
My tortured life - with its extremes and conflicts - might have been difficult for me to deal with, but the press couldn't get enough of it. I was in the papers every day, 'the enfant terrible of the culinary world.'
Marco Pierre White
Life
Day
Me
Every Day
World
Difficult
Every
Enough
Extremes
Press
Papers
Tortured
Terrible
Deal
Culinary
Been
Get
Conflicts
Might
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
Mark Pagel
Best
Big
Others
Our
Minds
Arms
Arms Race
Brains
Than
Owe
Conflicts
Interest
Race
Social
Manipulating
Engaged
Less
Among
Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings.
Martti Ahtisaari
Inevitable
Caused
Human
Human Beings
Conflicts
Wars
Beings
When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.
Matt Gaetz
Time
Change
People
Law
Will
State
Circulate
Laws
Federal
American
Conflicts
American People
Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.
Michael Arrington
Financial
Sometimes
Conflicts
Interest
Straight
Them
Many
Even
Keep
Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.
Michael Arrington
Marriage
Financial
More
Potent
Friendships
Than
Conflicts
Far
The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.
Michael McCaul
Destruction
President
Took
Responsible
Between
Arm
Terrorist
Israel
Lebanon
West
Denied
Iran
Current
Conflicts
Place
Holocaust
Even
By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.
Miroslav Lajcak
Future
People
Circle
Odds
States
Feed
Fail
Talented
Talented People
Robbing
Most
Unwillingly
Improving
Nations
Vicious
Conflicts
Europe
It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.
Miroslav Lajcak
Intervene
Easier
Cost
More
Prevent
Terms
Effective
Eruption
Than
Just
Conventional
After
Conflicts
Far
Violence
Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
Mitchell Reiss
Sometimes
Focus
Caricatures
More
Tend
Issues
Conflicts
Personalities
Really
Appointing special counsel Robert Mueller to probe Russian meddling in the 2016 election (and any possible ties to President Trump's campaign) was the only choice the Justice Department had. This is the best way to deal with the conflicts and potential conflicts of interest these matters posed.
Neal Katyal
Best
Justice
Election
Matters
Meddling
President
Way
Possible
Best Way
Russian
Only
Potential
Counsel
Had
Robert
Ties
Deal
Trump
Campaign
Department
Any
Probe
Conflicts
Interest
Justice Department
Choice
Special
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
Neale Donald Walsch
Great
History
Conflict
Sadness
Resolve
Our
Way
Entire
Throughout
Device
Human
Conflicts
Race
Human Race
Found
Species
Eliminate
Violence
For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
Noam Chomsky
World
Difficult
Settlement
Feasible
Up
Conflicts
Conjure
Many
Even
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
Norman Davies
Worth
Salt
Panorama
Part
Historian
Any
Happen
Conflicts
Should
Wars
Aware
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Omar Bongo
Fight
Sustainable Development
Other
AIDS
States
Member
Promote
Devastation
Put
Contagious
Development
Armed
Undermine
Continent
Caused
End
Diseases
African
Order
Sustainable
Conflicts
Against
Act
Union
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra
Political
Binary
Rest
Think
Clash
Insidious
Some
Economic
Particularly
Ideological
West
Versus
Deception
Form
Conflicts
Grand
Theory
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
Pat Barker
Life
Class
Mind
Perception
Finished
Thinking
Changed
Soldiers
Characters
Reconstruction
Facial
Area
Unresolved
Had
Also
Became
Lot
Left
Conflicts
Interested
Them
Sequel
Whole
Portraits
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
Patricia Briggs
Conflict
People
Immigration
Immigrants
Indian
Indian People
Hosts
Bound
Between
Lore
Were
Blood
Reflects
Human
Native
Conflicts
Who
European
Creatures
Here
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