Quotes with peace-keeping

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  • Michael Jordan The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
    Michael Jordan
    American basketball player and businessman (1984 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bill Walton The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Mother Teresa The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Beeban Kidron The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bill Dedman The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
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  • Carlos Santana The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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