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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
Source: Tractatus Politicus -
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
Source: Alexander Woollcott, The First Mrs. Tanqueray
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