"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people."
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"it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings."
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"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing."
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"Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
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"Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free."
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"You can't shake hands with a closed fist."
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"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
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"With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world."
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"My actions are my only true belongings."
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"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought."
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"Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end."
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"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
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"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."
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"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself."
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"I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace."
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"When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace."
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