"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

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"In quietness we find inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children."

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"If you wish to possess your soul, be patient."

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"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."

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"Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go."

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"To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Don't react to any fuming argument."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"So that others can live in peace, talk about love and peace wherever you go."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Sometimes the most important thing to do is to do nothing."

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"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"

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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."

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"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

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"It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building."

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"The essence of lying is in deception, not in words."

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"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."

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"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."

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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

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"Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape."

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