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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first ...

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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a pea...

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When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to ...

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Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once ...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Man constantly prayed to God for peace, but peace never happened, so he decided that his god must re...

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Sheri S. TepperRaising the Stones

There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at pea...

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We should use our imagination more than our memory.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All tha...

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There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. The...

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They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the...

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Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, w...

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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop i...

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Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inn...

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World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo t...

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Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. W...

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Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

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Sri ChinmoyPerfection and Transcendence

Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. Y...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring hear...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme.But there shall come a t...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully ...

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The Church really does not know what [peace and justice] mean apart from the life and death of Jesus...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying...

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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and o...

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Stephen KingHearts in Atlantis

Instead of asking, “Why is there war?” we might ask, “Why is there peace?” We can obsess not just ov...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred b...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry a...

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How goddamn foolish it is, the war. They's no war in the worth that's worth fightin' for. I don't ca...

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Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but af...

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost....

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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy wi...

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These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...

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Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality ...

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Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

He was safe for the moment, here in the playground, but people all over the world were suffering, st...

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped...

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I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just lik...

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Death is the reward for living

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Sylvia BrowneLife on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free...

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I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab disput...

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If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was sile...

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Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war...

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Terry PratchettUnseen Academicals

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings ...

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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

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If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don'...

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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice mu...

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It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

It's madness the sheep to talk peace with the wolf

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.

And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in whic...

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Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Hom...

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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue...

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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Thomas MannThis I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of One Hundred Thoughtful Men and Women

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many d...

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism tha...

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Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on va...

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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own s...

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Thomas MertonNew Seeds of Contemplation

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in pe...

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

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Thomas PynchonGravity's Rainbow

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes...

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Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic ...

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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concre...

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But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're ...

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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos ...

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Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

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Tom RobbinsFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, cons...

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Outside, snow solidified itself into graceful forms. The peace of winter stars seemed permanent.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent ...

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Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The rav...

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Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased w...

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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...

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On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinFour Ways to Forgiveness

Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are d...

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The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as ci...

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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, h...

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A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."His Mother says: "Why did you figh...

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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner tabl...

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