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    Maile Meloy
    “We have to think of a question that we wouldn't otherwise want to answer.'

    He stood over the pot, looking down at the leaves. 'Something like, Who do you fancy?'

    'That might work,' I said, even though it was the last question I wanted to answer. But it was impossible, suddenly, to tell a lie.

    Benjamin took a deep sniff over the steam and turned to me. 'All right,' he said. 'So who do you fancy?'

    I hesitated. 'Fancy means like, right?' I said stalling.

    'Of course.'

    I gritted my teeth against the answer coming out. but I couldn't stop myself. 'You,' I said helplessly.”
    ― Maile Meloy, The Apothecary
    tags: magic, the-apothecary, young-love
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    L. Ron Hubbard
    “Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
    ― L. Ron Hubbard
    tags: battles, conflict, ideas, intelligence, progress, war
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: analogies, anger, angry-men, annoy, authors, bitter-people, characters, conflict, cruel-people, drama, enemies, examples, fake-christians, fiction-characters, fights, friends, irritation, jealous-women, life-events, made-an-example, memories, plots, stalkers, stories, villians, writers, writing
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    Ozzie Zehner
    “Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.”
    ― Ozzie Zehner, Green Illusions
    tags: bravery, conflict, peace, war, wisdom
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    “Peace cannot be achieved; they have to be plucked out of their pod.”
    ― A.G. Phillips
    tags: conflict, funny, humor, peace, peas, quote, random
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    Bryant McGill
    “Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: absence, conflict, opposition, peace, polarity, universal
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    Bryant McGill
    “There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: conflict, escaping, life, peace
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: adversity, answers, clarification, commonsense, communication, conflict, cryptic, gods-warriors, humor, issues, listening, prayers, praying, problems, relentless, rescuers, solutions, storms, stubborn, tenacity, truth-seekers, warriors
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    “CONFLICT is the unhealthy fruit from the tree of MISUNDERSTANDING
    which was once a seed of INSECURITIES that
    sprout from the isolation of MIND,
    sipping slowly the liquid of PRIDE...”
    ― Robby Dumanon
    tags: conflict
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    Veronica Roth
    “Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.”
    ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
    tags: conflict, differences, divergent-series, four, friends, love, relationships
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    “Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: conflict, forgiveness, grudges, memories
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    Veronica Roth
    “How do you stop conflict without conflict?”
    ― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
    tags: conflict
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    Markus Zusak
    “It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death
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    Markus Zusak
    “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: friendship, snow
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    Frederick Douglass
    “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
    ― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
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