Strife Quotes
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.
Irving Howe
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
Anna Hutchison
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
Asif Ali Zardari
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It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.
Confucius
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...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble steps and waitresses calling you 'hon,' you know. Racial strife in the sixties, the riots during the Civil War. F. Scott Fitzgerald said it was civilized and gay, rotted and polite. The terms are slightly anachronistic now, but I think he was essentially right.
Laura Lippman
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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
William Wordsworth
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides
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Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
Heraclitus
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I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
Catherine the Great
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
Confucius