For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Thomas Hobbes
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
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Erich Maria Remarque
Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have been one of them, had...
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Albert Camus
Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
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Bob Marley
It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of...
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Diane Ackerman
I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to...
How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again!
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and...
