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we can envision ... psychological operations to sow distrust and discord among the terrorists and their supporters.

Mackubin Thomas Owens -- Same Old Questions -- http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-owensprint092501.html(retrieved 06/29/06)

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Sallust (86-34 BC, Roman historian)

...he was always pondering in his mind how the family discord could be ended.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The auditorium vibrates with discord. Every combination of argument is going full tilt.

Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

We have remained close, however, and have even glimpsed islands of agreement as we navigate the rapids of discord.

Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II

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discord is fundamental to the creation of new intensities of feeling.

John Gardner -- Grendel

The only visible wisp of discord was the broken glass in the windows of Jewish businesses.

Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

This was the cause of constant discord

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

Particular rules seem at first discordant, but looking more closely we see in general that they resemble each other;

Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

The entire business had taken an hour and twenty minutes, only one discordant note intruding on the smooth proceedings.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

It sounded cold, almost hostile. Apparently hoping to counteract the discordant note, the editor said, ...

Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen:

William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

How shall we find the concord of this discord?

William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

It would be too painful to me to think that I might be a cause of sorrow or discord in the family that has been so good to me...

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

...and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress.

Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

an outburst of the most hideous and discordant noises.

Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson

Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a profound thing,

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Eragon frowned; a note of discord had entered the minds he was monitoring.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

his love for sowing dissensions and scattering discord everywhere

Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

My soul is full of discord and dismay.

William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

There was a discordant hum of human voices!

Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

But then discord crept among us

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

disdain, and discord, shall bestrew the union of your bed

William Shakespeare -- The Tempest

it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

...tell me the reason why such great discord has assailed it.

Dante Alighieri -- Dante’s Inferno

Jealousy, discord, and fury, dwell in the convent.

Voltaire -- Candide

I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time!

H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

I didn’t want to be a source of familial discord when they were already arguing.

Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason;

William Shakespeare -- King Lear

it would produce a discord in Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

...it would create such discord as might break up the company.

Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

...trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views;

Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. ... The apple of discord was...

James Joyce -- Ulysses

should discord grow

Sophocles -- Oedipus the King

The walls of the rooms were discordantly papered.

Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie

discord in the spheres

William Shakespeare -- As You Like It

Long had the smouldering fire of discord glowed between the tyrant father and his savage son...

Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe

by prevention of discord at home

Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan

There was always this feeling of jangle and discord in the Leivers family.

D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers

The enmity and discord which of late

William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors

made no discord with the rest of the scene

Marcel Proust -- Swann’s Way

...was a source of discord between himself and his parishioners,

George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

—to observe where they met, and where they separated, at what point they were in unison, and at what point they were at discord,

Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray

The clash of discord between mood and matter here was forced painfully home to the heart;

Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

...to the first discord there succeeded nothing but new ones.

Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf