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“People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.”
Dan Sullivan
Conflict
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Responsibility
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Problem Solving
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Self-Reflection
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Preventive Actions
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“You judge an enemy based on the amount of emotion they create.”
Patrick Bet-David
Enemy
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Judgment
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Emotion
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Perception
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Conflict
3.
“The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.”
Neil Gaiman
War
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Ignorance
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Conflict
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Tension
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Foreshadowing
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“There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
Neil Gaiman
War
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Morality
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Conflict
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Belief
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Danger
5.
“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.”
Neil Gaiman
Conflict
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Chaos
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Violence
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Perspective
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Nihilism
6.
“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
Douglas Adams
Communication
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Conflict
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Irony
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Culture
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Unintended Consequences
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“First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.”
Douglas Adams
Music Fandom
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Humor
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Conflict
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Stereotypes
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Rock Culture
8.
“It meant that the silently waged conflict between himself and his cleaning lady had escalated to a new and more frightening level. It was now, Dirk reckoned, fully three months since this fridge door had been opened, and each of them was grimly determined not to be the one to open it first.”
Douglas Adams
Conflict
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Stubbornness
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Humor
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Domestic Life
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Tension
9.
“You burn a man’s pickup, and he’s ready for war.”
John Grisham
Revenge
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Conflict
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Human Nature
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Rural Life
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Social Dynamics
10.
“In any war, the truth is the first casualty.”
John Grisham
War
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Truth
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Propaganda
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Conflict
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Information Manipulation
11.
“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family
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Conflict
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Pain
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Healing
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Relationships
12.
“Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.”
Michel de Montaigne
Language
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Communication
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Human Nature
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Conflict
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Critique
13.
“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.”
Michel de Montaigne
Equality
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Human Nature
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Conflict
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Social Hierarchy
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Universality
14.
“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
Michel de Montaigne
Language
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Conflict
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Human Nature
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Communication
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Critique
15.
“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Gender Dynamics
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Human Nature
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Relationships
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Societal Critique
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Conflict
16.
“The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Conflict
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Silence
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Emotional Struggle
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Hidden Battles
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Interpersonal Dynamics
17.
“I am not in favor of Facebook friends who make Facebook enemies for me.”
W.H. Auden
Social Media
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Friendship
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Conflict
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Boundaries
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Modern Relationships
18.
“Drama is based on the mistake.”
W.H. Auden
Drama
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Error
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Conflict
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Storytelling
,
Human Nature
19.
“An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.”
Thomas Jefferson
Enemy
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Belief
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Subjectivity
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Conflict
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Perspective
20.
“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”
Thomas Jefferson
Cowardice
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Spirit
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Conflict
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Courage
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Human Nature
21.
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
Thomas Jefferson
War
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Inefficiency
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Conflict
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Loss
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Critique
22.
“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
Thomas Jefferson
Conflict
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Association
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Society
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Human Nature
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Governance
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“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”
Thomas Jefferson
Good
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Evil
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Conflict
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Morality
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Ethics
24.
“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.”
Thomas Jefferson
Reason
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Action
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Strength
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Resolve
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Conflict
25.
“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
John Milton
Reconciliation
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Hate
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Forgiveness
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Human Nature
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Conflict
26.
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?”
John Milton
War
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Cycle Of Violence
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Futility
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Conflict
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Human Nature
27.
“Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.”
John Milton
Revenge
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Victory
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Consolation
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Conflict
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Human Desire
28.
“Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dogma
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Reason
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Conflict
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Intolerance
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Human Nature
29.
“You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Determination
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Defiance
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Strength
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Conflict
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Self-assertion
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“The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Religion
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Conflict
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Critique
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Philosophical Insight
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Historical Analysis
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Social Commentary
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