"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."
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"Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them."
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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life."
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"The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides."
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"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away."
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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
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"War would end if the dead could return."
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"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."
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"It Is possible to live in peace."
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"Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
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"Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up."
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"Freedom from desire leads to inner peace."
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"War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices."
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"Peace is freedom in tranquility."
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"I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war."
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"Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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"Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product."
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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."
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