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• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Compromise does not mean cowardice.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Ubuntu, Doe

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• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  George Washington

  War, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• All works of love are works of peace.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Ubuntu, Power Of Love

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Baby, Spring, Angel

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272

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• Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  History, Tradition, Members

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.71, Grove Press

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• This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Doubt, Mind

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• We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Home, Community, Humanity

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• It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Truth, Yoga, Buddhism

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• There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Justice, Fairness, Solidarity

  Pope John Paul II's Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, w2.vatican.va. December 8, 1999.

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• Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Humanity, Relaxation

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 23, 2015

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• Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Change, Men, Mind

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• War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

  Ken Gillespie

  War, Boys, Men

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• Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Names, Roots

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• Democracies die behind closed doors.

  Damon Keith

  Ubuntu, Doors, Democracy

  "Judge Damon J. Keith – Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 30, 2015.

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• One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Winning, Ubuntu

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter.

  Margaret Mead

  Wall, Intelligent, Ubuntu

  "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views". Book edited by Rhoda Metraux, 1963.

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• Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Fighting, Ubuntu, Diversity

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• Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Passion, Angel, Justice

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• [T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, War, Essence

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• War is fear cloaked in courage.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, War, Anti War

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• Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Children, People

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• "In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Respect, Tolerance, Together

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Cry, Refuse

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.66, Beacon Press

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