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"Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human."

— Pedro Arrupe

Religion1907–1991

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"With the situation fully and correctly understood, it becomes entirely reasonable that the very small fraction of a second preceding a violent death could be a trigger to speculative thought."

— Gordon R. Dickson

Literature1923–2001

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— Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy1788–1860

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"A conflict is to be characterized psychologically as a situation in which oppositely directed, simultaneously acting forces of approximately equal strength work upon the individual."

— Kurt Lewin

Psychology1892–1942

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