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" The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. "
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" I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. "
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" Everybody is xenophobic to an extent. "
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" If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. "
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" We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. "
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" I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. "
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" An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. "
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" In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. "
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" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "
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" New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. "
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" One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. "
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" You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you. "
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "
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" Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. "
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" Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. "
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" Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. "
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" I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships. "
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" The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? "
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Texas
" As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live. "
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" When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. "
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" Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. "
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" Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step. "
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" Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. "
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" I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped. "
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" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "
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" I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done. "
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