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First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
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conflict
fighting
inspirational
misattributed-to-gandhi
trial
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Nicholas Klein |
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)--Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world--a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious--surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
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conflict
credulous
curious
democracy
fable
fossil
glorious
instructive
literature
mythic
poetry
primitive
prose
schools
science
science-vs-religion
spectacle
superstitious
testing
theology
untaught
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Walt Whitman |
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The faculty to think objectively is ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of . To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between picture of a person and his behavior, as it is narcissistically distorted, and the person's reality as it exists regardless of my interests, needs and fears.
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conflict
empathy
erich-fromm
humility
love
narcissism
objective
objectivity
reason
reasoning
selfishness
subjective
the-art-of-loving
understanding
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Erich Fromm |
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I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin
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conflict
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Ai Yazawa |
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"People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations, and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues, we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings, and that can generate resentment."
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conflict
courage
disagreement
understanding
vulnerability
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Brené Brown |
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What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
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conflict
government
history
politics
power
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Christopher Hitchens |
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And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox For he is everything and nothing Hero and fool Potent, helpless And with one word of truth or treachery He will save or damn the earth Because he is mad and sane Cold and passionate Lost and found
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choice
conflict
paradox
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Stephen R. Donaldson |
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"Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never "bite" or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she's terribly guilty--of something, anything, who knows what?"
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conflict
relationships
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Susan Cain |
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"I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it's like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking, "Is this as good as it gets?"
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conflict
life
problems
youth
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Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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Religion raises the stakes of human conflict much higher than tribalism, racism, or politics ever can, as it is the only form of in-group/out-group thinking that casts the differences between people in terms of eternal rewards and punishments.
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conflict
religion
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Sam Harris |
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How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.
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conflict
e-m-forster
expectations-vs-reality
howards-end
love
the-world
truth
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E.M. Forster |
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No one is every only one thing. Inside one person there are so many different people, and quite often they're at war with each other, and sometimes one of them is winning, and sometimes another. We're all so hard to understand, aren't we? I don't even understand myself.
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conflict
self-reflection
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Louis de Bernières |
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"I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a coal miner, the times he took Wendy and me sailing in the harbour, the times he showed me how to play soccer, but I forgot all the bullying and I'll never understand why. And now you ask me, you ask me what happened once we were in high school. You said you didn't understand what having a family was like, so ask me!" Mandy was shouting at him without even realizing it, her words sharp and unforgiving. "I...." Alecto started, hesitating for a moment. "You don't seem like yourself Mandy Valems, not at all...." "No, go ahead! You want to know what having a real family is like?" Mandy snapped, turning to stare at him coldly. "Ask me what happened, I'll tell you anything you want to know!" "...What happened?" Alecto asked quietly, looking nervous and confused. "I stayed late after school in shop class when I was in grade 9, trying to keep my lousy grades up. I was building a birdhouse, something like that, and that was when Jud and all his popular jock friends came storming in, laughing and swearing like a bunch of pigs," Mandy continued. "So ask me what happened next." "I... I don't want to ask you what happened," Alecto replied. "Ask me!" Mandy yelled. "Alright, what happened next...?" Alecto questioned."
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assault
attack
beat-up
bully
bullying
canada
cape-breton-parents
confession
conflict
cruelty
fight
friend
friendship
high-school
imaginary-friend
nova-scotia
school
shop
stress
wood
wood-shop
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Rebecca McNutt |