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" The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency. "

Dorothea Dix

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" 'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.' "

" You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. "

" We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind. "

" It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language. "

" You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. "

" Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think. "

" World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. "

" We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war. "

" Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. "

" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. "

" I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties and borders with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The Paris Treaty was signed on February 10, 1947. I was born a few days later. "

" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. "

" If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. "

" 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. "

" It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. "

" If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. "

" I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. "

" There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind. "

" Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. "

" Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. "

" I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. "

" A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated. "

" Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. "

" If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. "

" My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind. "

" Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region. "

" Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma. "

Jim Cantrell

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" I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. "