"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."

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"He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires."

Heart, Wishes

"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief."

Spirit, Will

"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

Identity, Crows, Eagles, Man, Sight

"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."

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"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were."

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"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."

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"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Conflict, Quarrel

"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"We're not going to baby sit a civil war."

Barack Obama, American President

Conflict, War, Baby

"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

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"There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights."

B. R. Ambedkar, Indian Politician

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"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

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"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."

Otto von Bismarck, German Leader

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"The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production."

Earl Browder, American Activist

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