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  Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

  Amelia Earhart

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.192, Crown

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  This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Ubuntu, Humanity

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Faith, Godly

  Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Sacrifice, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Healthy, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Bravery, Lust

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Violent Man, Dies

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• Morality is contraband in war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Ethics, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Long, Dreamer, World

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• To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Doubt, Secret

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.510, Aum Publications

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• Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Eye, World, Twinkling

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.304, Aum Publications

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• Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

  Sri Chinmoy

  Choices, World, Pilots

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.835, Aum Publications

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• Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

  Chandravadan Mehta

  Heart, Ideas, Clash

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• Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

  Sigmund Freud

  War, Civilization, Rocks

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• Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Procrastination

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• Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Freedom, Ubuntu, Baths

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• Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Coffee, Dirty, Ubuntu

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Fun, Winning, Doors

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• Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Ubuntu, Aggressive

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Ubuntu, Benefits

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• War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

  Karl Kraus

  Hope, War, Ubuntu

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Ubuntu, Speak Your Mind, May

  Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”

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• Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

  Suzanne La Follette

  Ubuntu, Rights, People

  Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

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• There are no right answers to wrong questions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Asking Questions, Questions And Answers, Wrong Answers

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.139, Ultramarine Publishing

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