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" First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. "

Thomas a Kempis

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" If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. "

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" I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind. "

" If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. "

" To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. "

" War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. "

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" It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more. "

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" The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. "

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