Truce Quotes - Page 3

• Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce.

  Milton Berle

  Valentine, Armistice Day, Valentine's Day

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• Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

  Charles Duhigg

  War, Years, Long

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.162, Random House

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• This is the heritage of Catholic education ... one which those who went to Catholic schools always recognize in each other, members of a secret society who, when they meet, huddle together, temporarily at truce with the rest of the world, while they cautiously, untrustingly, lick each other's wounds.

  Sonia Orwell

  School, Catholic, Secret

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