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Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved. (Sharon Ariel)
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. (Sharon Ariel)
Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them. (Sharon Ariel)
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind. (Sharon Ariel)
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. (Sharon Ariel)
This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another. (Sharon Ariel)
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world. (Sharon Ariel)
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. (Sharon Ariel)
A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. (Sharon Ariel)
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves. (Sharon Ariel)
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. (Sharon Ariel)
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses. (Sharon Ariel)
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. (Sharon Ariel)
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling. (Sharon Ariel)
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. (Sharon Ariel)
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. (Sharon Ariel)
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue. (Sharon Ariel)
What rights are those that dare not resist for them? (Sharon Ariel)
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. (Sharon Ariel)
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? (Sharon Ariel)
We cannot really think in one way and act in another... (Sharon Ariel)
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