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151.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
George Bernard Shaw
Conflict Avoidance
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Humorous Wisdom
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Conflict
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Wisdom
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Humor
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Avoidance
152.
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Human Duality
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Inner Conflict
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Primitive Nature
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Duality
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Conflict
,
Nature
153.
“I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
William Shakespeare
Cruelty
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Kindness
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Conflict
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Duty
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Consequences
154.
“I never take my own side in a quarrel.”
Robert Frost
Self Reflection
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Humble Approach
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Conflict Resolution
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Reflection
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Humility
,
Conflict
155.
“I personally don’t invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn’t typically either.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Investing
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Conflict
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Ethics
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Business
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Facebook
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Responsibility
156.
“I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”
Oscar Wilde
Wits
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Humor
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Irony
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Conflict
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Intelligence
157.
“I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.”
Dalai Lama
Dialogue
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Conflict
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Resolution
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Openness
,
Reconciliation
158.
“I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.”
John Lennon
Relationships
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Regret
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Love
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Estrangement
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Conflict
159.
“I see a very dark cloud on America’s horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.”
Abraham Lincoln
Concern
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Warning
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Future
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Conflict
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Influence
160.
“I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Shire
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Saving
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Conflict
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Change
,
Humor
161.
“I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”
Jane Austen
Displeasure
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Insult
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Anger
,
Conflict
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Rejection
,
Insult
162.
“I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment – and yet – I can’t help it – I enjoy every second of it.”
Winston Churchill
War
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Conflict
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Irony
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Passion
,
Darkness
163.
“I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now, I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”
Anne Frank
Maturity
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Conflict
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Observation
,
Relationships
,
Growth
164.
“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
Stephen King
Writing Characters
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Storytelling Power
,
Empathy Creation
,
Conflict
,
Creativity
,
Expression
165.
“I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Pure Love
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Good Evil
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Moral Complexity
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Hatred
,
Philosophy
,
Conflict
166.
“I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Losing Self
,
Better Worse
,
Inner Struggle
,
Transformation
,
Conflict
,
Self
167.
“I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love Loyalty
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Personal Conflict
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Marriage Struggle
,
Love
,
Conflict
,
Loyalty
168.
“I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”
Sylvia Plath
Conflict
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Guilt
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Expectation
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Freedom
,
Struggle
,
Self
169.
“I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”
Virginia Woolf
Love
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Marriage
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Compromise
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Conflict
,
Independence
,
Work
170.
“I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.”
Tim Cook
Litigation Disdain
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Ethical Conflict
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Legal Battles
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Conflict
,
Ethics
,
Justice
171.
“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.”
Franz Kafka
Existential Conflict
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Life Struggle
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Personal Duality
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Struggle
,
Life
,
Conflict
172.
“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Metal Conflict
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Iron Strength
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Ice Resistance
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Strength
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Conflict
,
Impossibility
173.
“If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Strength
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Civility
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Leadership
,
Conflict
,
Communication
174.
“If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Character
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Relationships
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Influence
,
Friendship
,
Conflict
175.
“If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind – follow your mind.”
Ayn Rand
Uncertainty
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Heart
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Mind
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Decision
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Logic
,
Conflict
176.
“If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.”
Abraham Lincoln
War
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Peace
,
Leadership
,
Conflict
,
Perspective
177.
“If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
War
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Peace
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Beliefs
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Business
,
Diplomacy
,
Conflict
178.
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
Sylvia Plath
Neurotic
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Conflict
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Desire
,
Duality
,
Confusion
,
Imbalance
179.
“If not against us, nature is not for us.”
Herman Melville
Nature
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Philosophy
,
Human Nature
,
Survival
,
Conflict
,
Perspective
180.
“If not reason, then the devil.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Devil's Choice
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Reason Absence
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Devil
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Reason
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Choice
,
Conflict
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