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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the ...

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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with ...

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...

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I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some ...

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At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his b...

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Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

If a transaction in progress appeared threatened with failure, if a shipment of goods seemed to have...

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Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solel...

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... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were...

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The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both des...

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Hermann HesseThe Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter...

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In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of p...

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I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racia...

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This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and securit...

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The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States ...

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Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, ...

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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...

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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heav...

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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, im...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and...

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I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a ...

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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—a nation of bullies and bastards who wo...

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Hunter S. ThompsonKingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

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Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a ...

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Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work...

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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and l...

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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no ha...

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How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at th...

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I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and ...

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Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a...

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Ivo AndrićThe Bridge on the Drina

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in ...

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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It co...

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[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful r...

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One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

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Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his res...

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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a subl...

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend...

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The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against ...

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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.

I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...

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Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all pain...

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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of sou...

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We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard w...

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Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perf...

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There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where i...

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Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a grea...

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Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died ...

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To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, withou...

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Jiddu KrishnamurtiKrishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal

If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the worl...

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Jim RogersA Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."-Jimi Hendrix

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively ...

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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weap...

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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children ...

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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet ...

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The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli governm...

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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...

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Jimmy CarterThe Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that...

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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow...

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John ClarePoems Chiefly from Manuscript

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barri...

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Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.

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John DrydenAbsalom and Achitophel

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...

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And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out ...

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It takes two to make peace.

Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barri...

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Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and fr...

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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of ...

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To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive