peace
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘peace’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.” -Kelly Preston
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“I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.” -Abba Eban
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“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I’ve always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.” -Dave Matthews
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“Everyone is interested in war, in that people don’t want it to happen. I’m much more interested in peace than in war but it’s important to understand why we fight.” -Michael Morpurgo
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“It’s a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I’m a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did…
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“Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.” -U Thant
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“We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.” -Peter Yarrow
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“One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“I don’t think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that’s to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.” -Ariel Sharon
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“I know that. I’m having a ball. I’m not slap happy. I’m just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they’re back and they’re thriving.” -Liza Minnelli
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“We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.” -Martin Van Buren
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“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.” -River Phoenix
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“I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.” -Maurice Strong
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“If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won’t have much strength and, eventually, we won’t have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a…
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“The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.” -Ho Chi Minh
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“I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.” -Naguib Mahfouz
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“Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.” -John Major
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“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.” -Corazon Aquino
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“Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.” -William Pennington
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“There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment – and nothing more corrupting.” -A. J. P. Taylor
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“My politics are of a practical kind – the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.” -Winfield Scott Hancock
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“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace.” -Michael Franti
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“Peace is a never ending process… It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.” -Oscar Arias Sanchez
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“I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.” -Renee Fleming
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“I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.” -Brittany Murphy
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“Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that’s my job. It’s no one else’s.” -Mariel Hemingway
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“There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.” -Douglas William Jerrold
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“Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.” -Arthur Henderson
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“Military hardliners called me a ‘security threat’ for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.” -Benazir Bhutto
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“The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.” -Nhat Hanh
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“Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.” -Sharon Stone
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“Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.” -Julien Benda
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“We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.” -Joichi Ito
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“I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.” -Brooke Burke
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“I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.” -Edvard Munch
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“Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn’t have a place to live, I still didn’t have a car, but I had peace.” -Sherri Shepherd
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“Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!” -Daniel Boone
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“We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince’s hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner’s hand.” -William Gurnall
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“I never will have peace of mind. I’m not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.” -Julie Christie
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“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.” -Grover Cleveland
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“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.” -Tim Robbins
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“Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come – and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“The Dalai Lama’s entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.” -Joe Nichols
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“The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.” -John Bolton
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“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.” -Dorothy Thompson
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“I just can’t seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?” -Siobhan Fahey
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“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
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“All my life I’ve taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.” -Jock Sturges
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“You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won’t have peace.” -Charles Schumer
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“I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!” -Muammar al-Gaddafi
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“I believe it is peace in our time.” -Neville Chamberlain
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“I hope for peace and sanity – it’s the same thing.” -Studs Terkel
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“May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.” -Yahya Jammeh
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“Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.” -Gil Scott-Heron
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“Peace is a natural effect of trade.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.” -John James Audubon
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“Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don’t know if I would wish for world peace.” -Brendan Fraser
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“The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.” -Samuel Smiles
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“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.” -Gerald Jampolsky
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“I’ve always been proud that my name stands for peace.” -Paloma Picasso
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“A decision once taken brings peace to a man’s mind and eases his soul.” -Mika Waltari
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“I really am a woman at peace.” -Laura Schlessinger
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“When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn’t make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn’t make a phone call. So for six years I didn’t make a phone call, but I wrote…
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“If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they’re usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they’ll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.” -Larry Hagman
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“Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.” -Josh McDowell
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“The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man’s dedication to world peace… a representation of man’s belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.” -Minoru Yamasaki
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“The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.” -Imran Khan
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“I’m at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I’m a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I’m doing.” -Cheryl James
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“The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.” -Francois Hollande
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“Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.” -Alcee Hastings
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“We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.” -Omar N. Bradley
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“The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.” -Nikita Khrushchev
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“In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.” -Kamisese Mara
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“Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.” -Brad Pitt
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“Even though now I’m pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I’m very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I’m more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.” -Novak Djokovic
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“Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that’s your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that’s your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that’s your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and…
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“It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.” -Tom Cruise
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“When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.” -Greg Kinnear
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“Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film ‘Funny Girl’ at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can…
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“I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.” -Moshe Dayan
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“Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.” -King Abdullah II
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“When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.” -Shimon Peres
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“Most fear stems from sin to limit one’s sins, one must assuredly limit one’s fear, thereby bringing more peace to one’s spirit.” -Marvin Gaye
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“I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.” -Jane Fonda
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“Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.” -Serj Tankian
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“You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.” -Larry Brown
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“If you remember you just have one constituent, and that’s God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.” -Jim DeMint
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“I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in…
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“In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel’s side and a serious obstacle to peace.” -Theodore Bikel
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“Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.” -Kent Nerburn
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“Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.” -Isabelle Adjani
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“The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.” -Prem Rawat
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“I’m not one to sit and wallow – I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don’t like bad feelings gnawing away at me.” -Sarah McLachlan
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“It’s quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.” -Diane Kruger
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“Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.” -Herodotus
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“All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.” -Bob Ney
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“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.” -John Foster Dulles
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“Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?” -Lorraine Hansberry
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“My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that’s the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.” -Sheila Jackson Lee
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“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“To awake from death is to die in peace.” -Douglas Horton
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“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.” -Margaret Mitchell
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“The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don’t want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.” -John Boehner
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“I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I’d be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to…
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“I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.” -Edward Lear
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“It’s not so much about killing an animal, it’s being at peace and you don’t have to worry about all the other things that go on. That’s a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it’s nice to do that.” -Brett Favre
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“I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.” -Elia Kazan
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“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.” -Martina Hingis
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“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.” -Milan Kundera
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“Bob Marley performed the ‘One Love Peace’ concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There’s always been that in black music and culture in general. It’s no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what’s going on in black life. It’s not unusual for hip-hop.” -Mos Def
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“We will not have peace by afterthought.” -Norman Cousins
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“The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.” -Alexis Carrel
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“Everyone has that friend who’s every day, like, ‘I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.’ You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it’s part of me – or change it. So I’m not against plastic surgery, I’m against plastic surgery…
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“The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.” -Sidney Sheldon
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“My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“It’s easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.” -Roger Moore
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“Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.” -Benjamin Netanyahu
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“Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -Mike Ditka
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“Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it’s doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don’t have money need some help.” -Kid Rock
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“But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.” -George Whitefield
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“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.” -Pablo Neruda
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“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” -Graham Greene
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“It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.” -Nnamdi Azikiwe
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“But only art and music have the power to bring peace.” -Yoko Ono
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“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don’t get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we’re almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.” -Venus Williams
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“We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.” -George H. W. Bush
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“The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual’s greed for power and the electorates’ desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.” -David Mamet
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“Peace is much more precious than a piece of land… let there be no more wars.” -Anwar Sadat
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“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” -Alfred Nobel
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“Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.” -William Glasser
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“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It’s not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.” -Tony Blair
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“But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn’t make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won’t be reached by getting thinner or fatter.” -Elle Macpherson
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“If there’s no inner peace, people can’t give it to you. The husband can’t give it to you. Your children can’t give it to you. You have to give it to you.” -Linda Evans
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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.” -Vaclav Havel
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“Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.” -James Buchan
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“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.” -Pierre Bayle
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“What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.” -Mikhail Gorbachev
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“I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.” -Lech Walesa
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“For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.” -Nick Rahall
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“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” -Stefan Zweig
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“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” -Joe Biden
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“Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.” -William Drummond
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“Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.” -Kofi Annan
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“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.” -Herbert Hoover
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“It’s really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.” -William Hague
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“I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.” -Francois Rabelais
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“Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years – and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.” -Ann Coulter
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“I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.” -Jesse Jackson
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“The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
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“That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.” -Mos Def
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“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I’d hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.” -Anne Lamott
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“There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I’m reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.” -Kelly Clarkson
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“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.” -James A. Garfield
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“If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.” -Ben Stein
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“Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.” -Winona Ryder
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“I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.” -George McGovern
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“But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.” -Tony Blair
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“When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.” -Janeane Garofalo
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“Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.” -Lester B. Pearson
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“We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.” -Oliver Tambo
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“No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“Peace is purchased from strength. It’s not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.” -Benjamin Netanyahu
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