Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Billy Strayhorn A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Wayne Dyer A transcendent being can be any miracle.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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  • Lord George Byron A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • St. John of the Cross Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Josh Billings About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Freya Stark Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
    Freya Stark
    British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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  • Arthur C. Nielsen Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.
    Arthur C. Nielsen
    American businessman and engineer (1897 - 1980)
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  • William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Charles J. Givens Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
    Charles J. Givens
    American businessman, writer, teacher
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  • Ben Bernanke Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Beverley Mitchell Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • John Donne Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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