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• I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.

  Jules Dervaes

  Believe, Empowering, Growing

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• With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, War, Commitment

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• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.
  One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Kings, Army, Creative

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

  Janis Joplin

  Mad, Bullshit, Feels Right

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• It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

  Michael Hyatt

  Odds, Succeed, Fantasy

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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  Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  "Obama To Young Scientists: ‘Keep Asking Why’" by Sara Bondioli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

  Robert Breault

  Imagination, Society, Doe

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• Lots of neat Christian boys, not a lot of Godly men. And we are working our tails off for you to try to develop some into that. But do not settle, because it's better that you be lonely now than you be married and lonely later. Are you tracking me? It is better that you be lonely now than for you to get married to a man that will teach your kids everything but the way of Jesus.

  Matt Chandler

  Christian, Lonely, Jesus

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• Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

  Dan Millman

  Patience, Warrior, Water

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.4, H J Kramer

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• Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Father, Cities, Never Settle

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• With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit.

  J.R. Miller

  Spiritual, Determination, Feet

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Regret, Men, Honorable Man

  Stephen Mansfield (2013). “Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

  Cesare Pavese

  Son, Generations, Artistic

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.295, Transaction Publishers

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• The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Painting, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Rewards, Broke, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.97, BookBaby

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Wind, Water

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Rain, America

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• We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Mind, Engaged

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.103, Penguin

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• The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

  Billy Graham

  Dust, Way, New Life

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

  Andre Gide

  Arms, Able, Get Up

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• It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Believe, Technology

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• It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

  Felix Frankfurter

  War, Never Settle

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• Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

  Anton Chekhov

  Play, Theatre, Arms

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

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• Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Flames, Never Settle, Accomplish

  Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library

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