Quotes with peace-at-any-price

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  • Victor Hugo For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht For the task assigned them
    Men aren't smart enough or sly
    Any rogue can blind them
    With a clever lie.
    Source: The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bhagavad Gita For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • George Eliot For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Francis Bacon Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ann Coulter 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
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Franz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bootsy Collins Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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