"The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul."
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"Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat."
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"Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it."
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"I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers."
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"On all the peaks lies peace."
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"Over all the mountain tops is peace."
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"The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government."
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"In general, our generals were outgeneralled."
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"Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!"
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"We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs."
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"And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)"
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"The mere absence of war is not peace."
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"It takes two to make peace."
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"So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war."
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"But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)"
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"I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it."
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"Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap."
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"We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that."
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"Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?"
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"Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms."
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