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The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. -- Criss Jami
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. -- Gore Vidal
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium -- Henri Frederic Amiel
two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere. -- Emme
What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up. -- Ava Zavora
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. -- Eugenio Montale
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. -- Douglas Haig
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. -- Douglas Haig
They were like fire and water, two opposing forces forever lost in an epic rivalry. Quite frankly, it would have been easier attempting to break a deal with wild horses than these two boys. -- Louise Gann
There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy. -- Libba Bray
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites. -- Piet Mondrian
A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony -- Anthony Lawlor
There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real. -- Eugene J. Martin
But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to be effective as a dynamic force (in the intellectual world) and precisely the unfulfilled ideals prove to be the most invincible. -- Stefan Zweig
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Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. -- Chuck D
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? -- Auberon Herbert
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. -- Peter Arnett
The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. -- Rosalind Wiseman
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. -- William H. Seward
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. -- Havelock Ellis
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. -- Hans Hofmann

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