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M. Scott Peck: “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”

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Jesse Jackson: “It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.”

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Edward Gibbon: “I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”

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Thor Heyerdahl: “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. ”

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Foucault: “Where there is power, there is resistance.”

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: “Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.”

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin : “If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith: “Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

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Howard Dean: “There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.”

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Saul Alinsky: “Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.”

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Thomas Mann: “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ”

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Evelyn Beatrice Hall: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (paraphrasing Voltaire)”

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Sharon Welch: “Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ...”

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Marian Wright Edelman: “[W]e are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.”

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Emma Thompson: “Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

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Mary Parker Follett: “There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.”

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John Dewey: “Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

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Indira Gandhi: “You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”

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David Friedman: “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.”

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Albert Einstein: “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

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Dorothy Thompson: “Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: “Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”

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Colette: “My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other.”

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Elizabeth Drew: “The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.”

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