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• I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Beautiful, Angel, Devil

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• We need to remember that trade is a great peacemaker that enriches people and increases international understanding and ties between nations.

  Dan Quayle

  Ties, People, Understanding

  Source: www.leadersmag.com

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• Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

  Anthony Shadid

  Believe, Artist, Glasses

  Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, You Like It, Negotiation

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Dream, Winning, Two

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• I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Party, Science

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• God hates it when we stir up strife, disloyalty, or contention among His people. It may happen in the church, but don’t you be a part of it. Don’t do it. Pray, ask the Lord to make you a peacemaker, and ask the Lord to show you how you can minister support and encouragement to the spiritual leaders of your church.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Hate

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• For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Weapons, Favour

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Giving Up, Warrior, Looks

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• In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my judgement, that kind of judgement is what we want in a president going forward. I want to be a peacemaker.

  Bernie Sanders

  Ethical Standards, Years, Judgement

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

  Paul Dickson

  Angel, Past, Impact

  "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

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• What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Charming

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.121, C.W. Parker, [1886-18-- or 19--]

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• Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

  Cormega

  Play, Snakes, Sides

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Believe, Government, Agents

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• When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Fighting, Joints

  "Willie Nelson: 'If we made marijuana legal, we'd save a whole lotta money and lives'". Interview with Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

  Newton Lee

  War, Hero, Small Steps

  Newton Lee (2013). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.208, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Peacemakers not only live, they rule life.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Peace, Peacefulness

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.

  Harriet Lerner

  Women, Expression, Long

  Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

  Walter Scott

  Invention, Wells

  Sir Walter Scott “Waverley Novels”

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• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Jesus, Brother, Believe

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• The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

  Criss Jami

  Sides, Conflict, Defeat

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.54, Criss Jami

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• What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Want, Philosopher, Poet

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