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James Wolfensohn

"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty."

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"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty."

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Amber Hurdle

"Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!"

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"We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land."

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"There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life."

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"You'll come to learn that many times, the people you have problems with are not really the people you have problems with; but in actuality, the problems lie in the premises of everybody else in between you, in their suggestive glances, in their implications and tone of voice, in their provocations and less-than-noble intent. Again, it comes down to shutting out the noise that isn't supposed to be there and listening to your inner silence."

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"Whether in the name of Just War, Witch-Hunt or the Inquisition, at various points of history for various poppycock reasons the cross had been the weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the orthodox church."

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"If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only."

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"The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club- Third rule of Fight Club, if someone yells "stop!, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over- Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight- Fifth rule: one fight at a time- Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons- Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to- The eighth : if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you do pratikraman after conflict, the conflict is erased. When you give rise to new conflicts, the energies that had arisen will disappear again."

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"Life is a struggle with innerself."

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"Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other."

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"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty."
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