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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
Isabel Allende
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
Kamisese Mara
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
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"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious."
"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious."
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"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
Feisal Abdul Rauf
"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."
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"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
Dag Hammarskjold
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
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"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
Joichi Ito
"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for."
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"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come."
King Hussein I
"We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come."
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"Peace begins with a smile."
Mother Teresa
"Peace begins with a smile."
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"A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul."
Mika Waltari
"A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul."
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"We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed."
Nursultan Nazarbayev
"We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed."
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"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
Yitzhak Rabin
"I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace."
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"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
Alvaro Uribe Velez
"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
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"Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end."
Hun Sen
"Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end."
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"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
King Hussein I
"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
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"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
Omar Bongo
"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
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"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God."
Sun Myung Moon
"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God."
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"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
Albert Reynolds
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
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"But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war."
Fredrik Bajer
"But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war."
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"A conqueror is always a lover of peace."
Karl Von Clausewitz
"A conqueror is always a lover of peace."
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"People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia."
Akhmad Kadyrov
"People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia."
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"The purpose of all war is peace."
Saint Augustine
"The purpose of all war is peace."
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"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."
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"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
George W. Bush
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace."
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"Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together."
Oscar Arias Sanchez
"Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together."
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"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope."
Mikhail Saakashvili
"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope."
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"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
Omar Bongo
"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
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"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality."
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"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality."
King Hussein I
"Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality."
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"The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it."
Sellapan Ramanathan
"The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it."
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"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region."
King Hussein I
"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region."
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"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot."
George Weah
"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot."
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"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country."
George Weah
"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country."
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"We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks."
Nursultan Nazarbayev
"We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks."
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"I am at home among trees."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"I am at home among trees."
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"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built."
King Hussein I
"God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built."
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"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
Karl Von Clausewitz
"To secure peace is to prepare for war."
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"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
King Hussein I
"It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East."
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"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
Nnamdi Azikiwe
"It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces."
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"You will find peace not by rearranging the external world but by accepting yourself."
Osho
"You will find peace not by rearranging the external world but by accepting yourself."
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"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
Hideki Tojo
"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
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"The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them."
William Laud
"The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them."
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"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
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"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
St. Jerome
"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
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"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
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"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
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
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"If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world."
Debasish Mridha
"If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world."
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"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
Shimon Peres
"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two."
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"We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here."
Erich Maria Remarque
"We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here."
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