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"And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge, militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility."
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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."


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