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"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
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"Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."

"A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven one can ever ascend to!"

"Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!"

"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."

"Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!"

"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."

"Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!"
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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."

"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."

"There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own."

"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."

"There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."
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