I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

[Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792]

George Washington

Mots clés hatred protestants religious-violence regret catholics-vs-protestants disputes liberal-policy religious-controversy roman-catholics



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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Baruch Spinoza

Mots clés disputes



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and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

Sarah Dessen

Mots clés disputes shared-silence



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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry.

Ben Marcus

Mots clés marriage relationships apologies disputes sorry



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Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Criss Jami

Mots clés wisdom certainty doubt morality peace war patience faith security logic calm uncertainty conflict fighting controversy conviction battles insecurity disputes



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Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

Shannon L. Alder

Mots clés silence conflict games cruelty stalking angry disputes hurting painful ignoring not-caring not-listening not-communicating false-piety playing-games deceitful cruetly disrespectful fake-christianity hurting-me lashing-out not-nice passive-agressive



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