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If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.
I believe there's a huge conflict of interest when local prosecutors investigate cases of police violence within their own communities.
The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.
The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.
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.
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.
When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.
There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
I didn't like the 'Survivor' shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.
I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.
So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.
Our financial system is driven by a giant marketing machine in which the interests of sellers directly conflict with the interests of buyers.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.
Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.