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  You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Meaningful, Positive Thinking

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• Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

  Lord Byron

  Solitude, Mark, Carnage

  George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

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• The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Evil, Hatred

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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• Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

  William Cowper

  Made, Interest

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• Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Clubs, Weapons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chase Salmon Osborn, Stellanova Osborn (1944). “"Hiawatha".: with its original Indian legends, compiled, with essays on its authentic background of lake Superior country and Chippewa Indians”

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• To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

  Tacitus

  Art, Solitude, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 588-91, Agricola, XXX, 1922.

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

  Ovid

  Men, Ira, Beast

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• Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
  [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

  Juvenal

  Savages, Bears

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• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.

  Joel Osteen

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Life, Change

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.7, Random House

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• There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  A. J. Muste

  War, Ubuntu, Insightful

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

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• Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

  Cesar Chavez

  Practice, Humanity, Violence

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• Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  War, What If, Used

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• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2003). “Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the special theory of relativity”, George Braziller

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, War, Patriotic

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

  Havelock Ellis

  War, Achieve, Anti War

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• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, War

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Nature, Water, Grain Of Salt

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

  Julia Hill

  Beauty, Real, Soul

  "Icon will not throw in sponge" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2000.

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Jobs, War

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  We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

  Luciano De Crescenzo

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Rest In Peace, Lying, Believe

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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