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Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.

Karl Jaspers

The oil system, both upstream and downstream, is being run close to sustainable limits and the tensions created by the absence of slack are now the key driver of prices.

Barclays Capital

We should take a step back today, given rising tensions over North Korea and the subsequent fall in New York. And after rising last week for no fundamental reason, we may be due for a fall.

Yutaka Miura

This is not something that catches us by surprise. We have always had the simmering tensions of a city that is quite diverse ? that is, a working-class or lower-middle-class city with a quite affluent university right in the middle of it.

Donna Lisker

The stakes could hardly be higher. Neither side appears eager for a second war, but the situation is very fragile and to dismiss current tensions as mere saber-rattling would be a serious mistake.

Gareth Evans

Apparently tensions are high because alcohol and weapons were taken away from the evacuees. Don't ask me how they got alcohol.

Deirdre Delisi

The secretary-general is very concerned about the increasing tensions in the country and appeals to all parties to uphold the 2003 ceasefire agreement.

Stephanie Dujarric

Turning over the responsibility for fighting the insurgents to local forces . . . threatens to exacerbate the communal tensions that underlie the conflict and undermine the power-sharing negotiations needed to end it.

Stephen Biddle

As tensions rise over nuclear issues, our diverse student coalition wants to spotlight the human side of the Iran crisis.

Adam Scheuer

It'll keep the tensions down.

Don Anderson

Political tensions will probably escalate as the ruling party is trying to fill 500 House seats by dubious means.

Chuan Leekpai

Iraq is the main worry. We've broken important technical support levels in the last couple of days as the market worries about growing geopolitical tensions.

Thierry Lacraz

The bomb spurs jitters in the market, as people are already wary of violence in the country given the growing political tensions.

Somchai Anektaweepon

Anytime you have overcrowding, it leads to deterioration of facilities. Tensions can also rise and it can lead to violence. That's not good for inmates or staff.

Marty Durand

With the overhanging cloud of the Iraqi situation, renewed fears of terrorism and tensions with North Korea, this market breeds fear, and fear drives stock prices lower.

John Person

That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions.

Robert McCloskey

Public safety can be enhanced by passenger screening but police must not heighten tensions by targeting young men from ethnic minorities.

Shami Chakrabarti

The president, defined the attempts by the governments of the past 16 years to bring to the table a dialogue with Europe and to try and reduce tensions, as a waste of time which has so far not produced any tangible results for our country.

Kazem Jalali

The United States hopes that it can use the four-power talks to bring about a relaxation of the military tensions in the Korean peninsula.

Selig Harrison

The main thing is to prevent the situation from deteriorating. The main goal over the next few months is to prevent a serious escalation in tensions [between Israel and Palestine], to give the parties a pause, to elaborate their positions taking into consideration electoral competition and then moving ahead on the path to implementing certain proposals.

Alexander Kalugin

Geopolitical tensions are on the rise and could at some point in the future have a very negative impact on the global economy and financial markets.

Marc Faber

Geopolitical tensions have put the market on edge.

Art Kinsman

The global atmosphere is still unclear and the local picture is also generating some tensions. The near-term outlook for the market is not good.

Francisco Andrade

Anytime you do something like this, you raise tensions in the institutions.

Jason Godin

When Japan and China tensions erupted last year, there was a sudden interest from Japan to have fallback capacity in Vietnam.

Frederick Burke

I think it's something said in the heat of the moment. When tensions calm, reason will prevail.

Matthew Conway

Buffeted by threatening tensions of war.

Ash Wednesday

We view any actions by the KLA -- or any other armed bands of paramilitaries or armed groups that cause friction or raise tensions -- as being entirely unacceptable.

Robin Clifford

The confidence with which (the) president is moving forward seemed to indicate to me the extent to which there are tensions, and there are, they're manageable.

Richard Armitage

I think the violence was quite simply about criminality, about people intent on seizing an opportunity to pick up on some of the tensions that had evolved during this week.

David Shaw

President Chen's latest policy initiative will only increase cross-Strait tensions. The tax season approaches and this will draw liquidity away as retail investors sell.

Spencer White

The polarization in Iran is clear and probably will grow. This is the kind of environment that can bring more tensions.

Shibley Telhami

The dollar is down because of anticipation of tensions in the region. When things start to get worse it's the dollar that weakens. It's more to do with risk aversion.

Marios Maratheftis

Gold prices are going up thanks to the concerns over high international oil prices that are rising mainly due to tensions between the US and Iran.

Tanvir Abid

It is terrible that there is another murder as, regardless of the victim's background, this can only add to the tensions that exist in the loyalist community.

Jim Rodgers

Prospects are gloomy politically especially with tensions in the opposition MDC party which have dealt a setback in a force that was capable of confronting the government.

Bill Saidi

The decline of oil prices will weigh on the market in the short term. BP Plc's results yesterday and geopolitical tensions are contributing.

Riccardo Marzi

With the ongoing political tensions in Iran and with Nigerian militants threatening more attacks on oil companies, short covering should push prices higher next week. Speculators still hold a considerable amount of short positions. With the current news flow, those investors should feel increasingly uncomfortable with their positions.

Tobias Merath

The geopolitical factor could work negatively for the dollar if tensions get more severe.

Tetsuya Aida

I don't see any geopolitical tensions arising out of the Arctic.

Andris Piebalgs

America's real plan is to fuel a civil war, while the national plan is for all Lebanese to live in peace with one another. There will be no return to civil war. All the political powers as well as the media must work to reduce religious tensions and make everyone understand that they will not allow Lebanon to be destroyed again.

Hassan Nasrallah

We have appealed to Sudan to stop whatever support it is lending to these groups and to join international efforts to reduce tensions here on the Chad-Sudan border.

Mark Wall

We condemn such provocations on both sides. This is counterproductive and is only fanning tensions.

Alexander Kalugin

Prices are strong at the moment primarily because of the tensions over Iran and concerns over what might come out from the IAEA inspection.

Simon Wardell

The law is going to apply in the coming weeks and it is likely that social tensions will remain.

Laure Maillard

Water is an undercurrent to tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

Sandra Postel

This has created tensions. They are underlying, they're not out on the surface, but they are there.

Lee Huenecke

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.

Dr. Hans Selye

Although politics and presidential elections are important to the workforce, employees are still wary of discussing these issues at the office. Many worry that political conversations can affect their careers, be offensive and lead to uncomfortable tensions.

Neil Lebovits

Milicic created a brief fi restorm midway through last season when he griped publicly about his endof-the-bench status. A meeting among Milicic, Brown and president of basketball operations Joe Dumars eased those tensions, but Billups revealed that Milicic remained sullen and frustrated by Brown's constant rebukes.

Chauncey Billups

The day I will see or I will feel the tensions is coming I will ask them to come back to the street again. But for the time being, I need silence in this country. I need peace. I want them to go back home and I will rely on them to respect what I did, and they will believe me.

Charles Ble Goude

Regionally, the Thai market remains buoyant. Once the political tensions subside, more investment would be seen aside from the net buy of Bt90 billion in the first two months of this year.

Supavud Saicheua

They've made a terrible error in calculation and they've led my country into a war that we will need to extricate ourselves from at some point, ... Despite their efforts, there is a growing sense in the world that we need to find other ways of resolving these tensions.

James Zogby

The only way to go forward is to continue the peace talks, and if we deny Arafat and deny the Palestinian Authority we just increase the tensions in the region.

Anna Lindh

The bond market has rebounded this week, and we've seen sentiment improving. Tensions over Iran, if that's driving oil higher, could be a problem.

Bob Maes

The ministers noted that current high oil prices are the result of a combination of many factors, ... Principal among them are gasoline bottlenecks in some regions of the world, increased geopolitical tensions in some regions, speculation in the futures market and recent upward revisions in global demand. These factors were analyzed with a view toward finding a solution to the problem.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

He ... urged the leaders to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide them.

Fred Eckhard

The Serbian authorities have flagrantly and provocatively chosen to heighten tensions by bringing thousands of people into Belgrade to confront the peaceful demonstrations by the opposition.

Strobe Talbott

Political tensions were very strong, but now everybody will be relieved.

Thanavath Phonvichai

The continued decline in crude -- that's probably the major reason why the market is rallying. It's a very easy way to look at how the market's viewing international tensions right now.

Stephen Massocca

The crack spread of gasoline has collapsed, and only an escalation of Iranian tensions could buttress crude at this level.

Jason Schenker

There are clear expectations that the pace of appreciation is going to accelerate and that's reassuring because it's one of the key factors in easing trade tensions with the U.S..

Julian Jessop

This law would define China and Taiwan as a unified country, and unilaterally change mainland China's legal approach to status of Taiwan. This is an unwelcome and provocative action that would increase, rather than calm, tensions in the region.

Todd Akin

Mortgage rates were largely unchanged this week, amid a sobering December jobs report and growing tensions in the (Middle East) and the Korean peninsula. Disappointing retail sales, a struggling manufacturing sector, and mild business investment are all holding mortgage rates in the six-percent range.

Frank Nothaft

We are very concerned by the latest tensions in the southeast in Turkey and the violence which have resulted in casualties. We deplore the loss of all human life, and we are well aware that there is a serious terrorist problem in the region, but it is a much wider issue than just a security problem.

Krisztina Nagy

We are conducting raids across the city for suspects of yesterday's bombings. We are on the alert for communal tensions but so far the situation is under control.

Navneet Sikera

The government in the first instance ... needs to take the initiative to increase confidence and lower tensions and initiate dialogue as a way of restoring confidence and ending what is turning into a dramatically worrisome cycle of violence and more violence.

Robert Gelbard

It's a mutually complementary relationship. Most of the economic and trade relationship between the two countries occurs in the private sector. Political tensions should not be blurring short-term corporate decisions.

Glenn Maguire

We're talking about post-hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems.

Eric Shinseki

Going forward, inflationary concerns will only gain steam, the U.S. dollar will continue its downward decline and geopolitical tensions will continue to draw safe-haven buying from around the globe.

Emanuel Balarie

Growing global fuel demand and political tensions between some oil producing nations and the United States are expected to keep energy prices high. According to some analysts, pump prices should begin to level off within the next week or two.

Elliott Eki

The specter of progressively higher inventories is blunting the impact of geopolitical tensions, making it harder for the market to climb.

Ed Meir

And now that tensions have eased in Korea, that is even more true.

Zhu Rongji