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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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"Through the sacred verses filled with violence and self-righteousness, the minds of the angry individuals find a way to get rid of all their misery. At that unstable state of consciousness, they are drawn to the description of the Holy War. They visualize a glimmer of hope. They feel absolutely immersed in it. Finally when they emerge as holy warriors, they are no longer humans, from the emotional perspective. They emerge as wild beasts, neurologically almost unable to feel human emotions, like empathy, love, kindness and compassion. Consequently the whole world faces the wrath of the most primitive of all human elements in the name of God's judgment."

"Our talk is right and the other person's talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong."

"You want a revolution, start murdering innocents."

"The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values-something whose like has never been seen on earth."

"The devil is the initiator of persecution."

"Where there is insistence, there is worldly life."
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"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."

"But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong."

"Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently."

"I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children."

"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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