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Peace Quotes
"Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time."
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"We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens."
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"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
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"I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development."
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"The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany."
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"If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it."
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"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved."
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"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
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"The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns."
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"They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself."
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"Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher."
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"Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians."
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"Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword."
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"Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience."
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"The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing."
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
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"Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
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"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award."
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"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
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"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."
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"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
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"If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray."
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"There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace."
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"The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers."
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"To get rid of stress, be yourself and relax."
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"The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process."
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"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes."
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"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war."
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"Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war."
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
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