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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Benefit Between Case Common Common Ground Conflicts Cultures Differences Film-Makers Find Finding Ground Important Less Maybe More Politicians Us Very Who

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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: Allow Appear Before Campaign Campaign Finance Companies Conflicts Contribute Courts Finance Interest Judges Justice Laws Lawyers Legal Loose Mississippi Perfectly Since Terrible

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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: America Center Change Characters Conflicts Defining Desires Each Every Fiction Find Grow Her Here His Individualism Job Motivations Obstacles Other Our Ourselves Overcome Own People Person Stories Story Tell Toward

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As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Against Billion Conflicts Continue Despair Event Face However Humiliation Increasing Majority More Muslims Population Recently Rest Risks September Than Violence Wars Were Will World

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The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Become Between Bridge Bus Conflicts Countries Dangerous Deal Dealt Domestic How International Israel Issues Major Occur Other Other Countries Purely Reality Religious Resolve Riders Sad Secular Would

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In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Between British Conflicts Different French Germans Going Many Russians Were 1930S

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I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.

~Alberto Salazar

Topics: Athlete Certain Coach Conflicts Could Happen Leave Lots Many Misunderstandings Particular Personality Reasons Stuff Tell Why Would You I Can

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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

~Alcee Hastings

Topics: Am Armed Aspects Believe Concerned Conflicts Deeply Differences Effects Faith Many Real Real Reason Reason Regions Religious Speaker Suffering World I Am Mr I Believe I Believe That

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I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

~Alfred Bester

Topics: Colorful Conflicts Interested Means Merely Much New People Pressures Produce Putting Science Science And Technology Technology Use Which

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It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.

~Aliette De Bodard

Topics: Certainly Conflicts Focused Genre Great Great Majority Large Majority Only Physical Seems Though

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