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Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

— Geoff Mulgan

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Conflict happens. People aren't happy all of the time.

— Sara Ramirez

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

— Richard Seymour

Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as war, violence, terrorism, economic disparity, and exploitation.

— Lobsang Tenzin

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

— Garth Brooks

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

— William Hague

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Conflict does not lead to stability in the world.

— Mohammed Morsi

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

— Tina Fey

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

— George William Russell

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