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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

James Madison

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live with the chains of strife.

Donald D. Campbell

He proved that it can be done without causing civil strife and he paved the way for his heir to go on with it.

Amnon Dankner

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

White Eagle

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

The fact of the matter is in that labor negotiations both sides understand that labor strife is counterproductive. Pilots don't strike for the hell of it. They don't needlessly place their employer in dire jeopardy.

Bruce Simon

There is strife between God's ways and human ways: damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

The court is thereby trying to placate the society that we have no manifestations of the inciting of ethnic strife or hatred.

Vadim Klyuvgant

This one appealed to me, ... My mom, before she passed, lived in a nursing home. It created great strife and guilt.

Patty Duke

O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!

Katharine Lee Bates

We condemn all those who are trying to create a turmoil in Lebanon, our brother Lebanon. We hope that the Lebanese people will remain united and strong in these critical moments, denouncing any internal strife and rejecting any foreign intervention.

Farouk

In this shadow of unconscionable strife and infamy, we come here today to shed light, ... We dedicate ourselves to this hallowed ground such that they may never be forgotten, and their lives may not have been given in vain.

Jim Mcgreevey

In this audition scene, she is forced to face the hard reality that all her talents mean little -- unless she is prepared to do jungle numbers. Although we deal with the racial strife of the period, the show is primarily concerned with Josephine's journey as an artist and a woman. It's very much an entertainment filled with romance and humor, and not a polemic.

Sherman Yellen

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife.

Joaquin Miller

Easter, for me, is a remembrance of what the Lord gave up for me to have salvation. It is about forgiveness of sins and healing. It reminds me that he suffered and died for me, a sinner, that I may have everlasting life; that I may be healed by his strife.

Barbara Stephens

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

Cornelius Tacitus

She's extremely important, because most often when it comes to wives, they, most of then have had great influence on their husbands, giving him the encouragement to withstand all of the strife and all of the dangers that he had to undergo. I think her being there beside him, gave him some of the strength that he needed in order to carry out the fight.

Joseph Jones

Religion is your responsibility and Iraq is your responsibility and you should be aware of the strife that the West is trying to incite among believers.

Moqtada Sadr

These criminals ... are intent on their terrorist plot to prevent Lebanon from regaining its strength and to sow strife and division among the Lebanese.

Nassib Lahoud

The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is finally closed.

Hun Sen

Being in a position where we now have a backstop that can support us up to towards $1 million if we get into financial strife comes as a great relief.

Ken Conway

I think if they were any better, if they had held onto the ball a couple of times, we could have been in strife. Our defense was brilliant.

Anton Oliver

Wherefore to-night so full of care, / My soul, revolving hopeless strife?

Robert Bridges