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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. — Robert Toombs
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away… — Thomas Merton
It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this… — Wilfrid Sheed
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them… — Charles Lindbergh
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions.… — Stephen Fry
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred… — Cathy Guisewite
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. — Harold MacMillan
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or… — Jeff Miller
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of… — Kelly Miller
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that… — Nathan Myhrvold
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert… — Deborah Tannen
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us… — Carl Sagan
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of… — Randy Alcorn
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many… — Thomas Merton
I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream… — Bono
Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. — Ray Bradbury
Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other… — Joe Meno
Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings. — Jerry Spinelli
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor
I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is… — Suzanne Collins
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in… — Michael Shermer
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world… — Alexandre Dumas

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