"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."

Peace, Being, Will

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"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."

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"Peace is produced by war."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Peace is peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Appreciations promote inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

Life, Fact, Mystery, Nothing

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Chance,

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Criticism, America, Chance, Old

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

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"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

Love, Pain, Despair, Art

"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."

Affection, Desire, Emotion, Connection

"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

Humor, Politics, Culture, Leadership

"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."

Society, Hunger, Greed, Decay

"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."

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