Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson
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  2. Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.

  3. Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it...

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  5. The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

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