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Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. -- Tipper Gore
I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak. -- Trevor Noah
Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate. -- Alain Ducasse
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away. -- Peter Tork
I grew up in Los Angeles when the racial tensions between blacks and Mexicans were very high. Gang violence was very prevalent. -- Miguel
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble. -- Craig Brown
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. -- Lester B. Pearson
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions. -- Mort Walker
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it. -- Richard LaGravenese
I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer. -- Sue Monk Kidd
It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. -- Dick Cavett
Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. -- Hans Hofmann
I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord. -- Eric Holder
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.' -- Dennis Prager
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos. -- Barack Obama
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel. -- Dennis Prager
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. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. -- Stephen Fry
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left. -- Dennis Prager
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. -- Andrea Mitchell
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations. -- Dennis Prager
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them. -- Mustafa Akyol
My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked. -- Madeleine Stowe
We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves. -- Sugata Mitra
History is where tensions were. -- Howard Nemerov
Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears. -- Dick Gregory
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability. -- Tim Brown
Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions. -- Kenneth Rogoff
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. -- Peter Rollins
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed -- E. F. Schumacher
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. -- Richard Benjamin
As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions. -- Gay Hendricks
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace. -- Pope Paul VI
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. -- Antonin Scalia
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. -- Ralph Fiennes
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. -- Naomi Wolf
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. -- Hattie McDaniel
Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which. -- Andy Stanley
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! -- Manuel Puig
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions. -- Leo Buscaglia
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work. -- Harold Rosenberg
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange. -- Gregory Crewdson
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions. -- Narendra Modi
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. -- Wendy Beckett
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in. -- Dale Carnegie
Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone. -- Vladimir Putin
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. -- Anne McCaffrey
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem. -- Andy Stanley
It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not. -- Garry Winogrand
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ... -- Anita Shreve
For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this. -- Shinzo Abe
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions. -- Paul Brunton
Ethnic divisions can definitely be exacerbated by a lack of natural resources, but those tensions become violent when people manipulate them for their own political gain. -- Dinaw Mengestu
Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed. -- Satish Kumar
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection to this special island forever. -- Rolonda Watts
Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute. -- Shams Tabrizi
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on. -- Anthony de Mello
Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another. -- Gene R. Cook
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components. -- DJ Spooky
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. -- bell hooks
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. -- Howard Thurman
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity. -- Jonathan Sacks
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them. -- Aaron Siskind
Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more... -- Muse
I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer. -- Peter Kenyon
the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires. -- Kathleen Winsor
Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise. -- Barack Obama
The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded. -- Lisa Cholodenko
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation. -- Raymond Chandler
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected. -- Francois Hollande
Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions. -- Jon Landau
I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. -- Peter Abrahams
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians. -- Pankaj Mishra
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. -- Russell Baker
Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another. -- Alex Morritt
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance. -- Nhat Hanh
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. -- Ann Macbeth
I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America's core national interests - so important - promoting regional stability, and producing and easing the tensions within our very troubled world. -- Donald Trump
Game of Thrones' isn't all about magic - it's way more about political scheming and family tensions - but to be a part of this exclusive magic club is actually really cool. -- Isaac Hempstead-Wright
Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated -- Wassily Kandinsky
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news. -- Michael K. Simpson
Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food. -- Dick Cavett
Don't let others influence your life... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self.... That's lesson for self... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life... -- Debolina Bhawal
Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication. -- Torkom Saraydarian
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through voluntary institutions. This is one of the most important tensions in capitalism. -- Tyler Cowen
With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions. -- Tara Brach
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. -- Hans Selye
My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify. -- Barack Obama
Woven through Timothy J. Clark's paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects. -- Will Barnet

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