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Conflict

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. – Proverb

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. – Proverb

More will mean worse. – Martin Amis

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. – Marian Anderson

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. – John M. Barrie

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the pickets off duty forever. – Ethel Lynn Beers

A mans own self is his friend. A mans own self is his foe. – Bhagavad Gita

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. Matthew 26:41 – Bible

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (Romans 7:19 – Bible

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 – Bible

Only by pride comes contention; but, with the well-advised is wisdom. Proverbs 13:10 – Bible

You are at enmity with yourself. – Jacob Boehme

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. – Napoleon Bonaparte

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. – Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling. – Nathaniel Branden

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. – Jacob Bronowski

When fight begins within himself, a mans worth something. – Sir Frederick Browning

There are three principles in a mans being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I dont do what I say. – Martin Buber

The archenemy is the arch stupid! – Thomas Carlyle

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. – Giovani della Casa