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• It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace

  Danny Glover

  Children, War, Long

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• In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

  Ian Peebles

  Games, Cricket, Bowlers

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• Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Gay, People, Fundamentals

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• The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Favors

  Interview with Sniježana Matejčić, June 2005.

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

  Mark Twain

  School, Sunday, Pirate

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.399, Univ of California Press

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• All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.

  Roger Deakin

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Nature, Animal, Sea

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Able, Causes

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2014). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Joy, Inner Strength

  Dalai Lama (2009). “For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

  John Dryden

  Beauty, Constitution, Harmony

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.400

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• Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.

  Georges Braque

  Bird, Painting, Canvas

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• No one can stop or control your thought process or your thinking. You can think anything you want. But that doesn't seem to be the point. The thinking process has to be directed into a certain approach... not in accord with certain dogma, philosophy, or concepts. Instead, one has to know the thinker itself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Philosophy, Thinking, Want

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.150, Shambhala Publications

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• If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Night, Silence

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• My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 19, 2016

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• Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

  Yves Klein

  Essence, Form, Manifestation

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• By signing the Oslo accords in 1993 he took a giant step towards the realization of this vision. It is tragic that he did not live to see it fulfilled.

  Kofi Annan

  Vision, Steps, Giants

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• You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positivity, Enviromental

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.124, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Wells, Flatterer

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• Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Taxation, Should

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• The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, Land

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• To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.

  Frank Gaffney

  Agreement, President, Addresses

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• A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Character, Heart, Soul

  Mary Baker Eddy (1967). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• [Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

  Winston Churchill

  Tyrants, Balance, Fool

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

  Ajahn Chah

  Pain, Men, Self

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