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When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.
There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.
With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
For years, successive Arab dictators have tried to keep discontent at bay by distracting people with the Israeli-Arab conflict.
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.
When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.
My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.
Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.
Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby
I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
Everyone always says that conflict is drama, and I agree, but I also don't think you need drama everywhere. Or conflict everywhere.
If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.
Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.
But wrestling used to be the same as boxing or mixed martial arts. It used to be about conflict, having a fight, who's going to win.
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.
There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?
My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.
I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.
I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
I am so passionate about Pakistan cricket that I would never ever put myself in a position where there will be a conflict of interest.
Very often when we talk about war, conflict or terrorism, we talk about it very politically. We forget that there are people involved.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.