"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

Conflict, Dependence, Self

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"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

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"Suddenly, she burst out, 'I want to punch her evil, lying face.'Liam caught a flash of hot gold as Dad looked at them, narrow - eyed, in the rearview mirror. Dad said, completely seriously, 'I can make that happen."

Thea Harrison, American Author

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"He caught me neat, right on the fucking face and I took one step back and thought, you're not getting away with that you bastard! I was punching the piss out of him, he kept going down, but I didn't kick him, he'd had enough. I didn't put the boot in to a man older than myself. But this confrontation was out of the blue, out of the fucking blue. That's what I had to face."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Israelis cannot be blamed for the conflicts and civilians casualties nor do the Palestinians. We can argue endlessly about it, the only one that can be blamed for this lasting battle is the Saudis fueling the conflicts for enduring their supremacy in the Arab world."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?""Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When civility is illusory, war is inevitable."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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"Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues, so as to conceal their dubious motivations. ['Could the milkman be the devil?']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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