"A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep."
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"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy"
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"Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is."
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"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
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"From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."
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"I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this."
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"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."
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"Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible."
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"In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close."
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"There is no path to peace; peace is the path."
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
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"During war, the laws are silent."
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
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"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another."
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"Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change."
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"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
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"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
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