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"The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone."
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"All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part."
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"A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence."
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"At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful."
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"A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity."
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"This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still."
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"By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives."
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"You might call that a peaceful invasion [of Muslims] but that`s the nicest thing can you call it. They`re not assimilating and they`re not assimilating because Sharia law is incompatible with the Constitution of the United States."
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"Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful."
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"I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas."
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"The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution."
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"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any."
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"Wonder what it’s like to have a peaceful life,” Ron sighed, as evening after evening they struggled through all the extra homework they were getting."
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"Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future."
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"Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law."
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"If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life."
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"I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial."
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"The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status."
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"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution."
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