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Mooji Spiritual Teacher
Peace

"When one is without ego, one becomes immediately free of all personal judgements, and perceives life and the world with divine eyes and mind. Nothing is offensive to them and they remain in perfect serenity and peace always."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
Peace

"Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding."

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Plato Philosopher
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"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war"

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Dan Brown Author
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"Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences."

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Euripides Playwright
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"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Peace

"Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other."

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