Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson
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  1. Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

  2. The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.

  3. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

  4. Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.

  5. Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

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