Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Louisa May Alcott What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • David Malouf What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Adam Arkin What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bella Freud What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Barry Schwartz What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • William R. Alger What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Richard Owen Cambridge What is the worth of any thing,
    But for the happiness 'twill bring?
    Source: Learning 23
    Richard Owen Cambridge
    British poet (1717 - 1802)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Albert Einstein What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bryan Singer What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru What we need is a generation of peace.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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