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• There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, Humanity, Waking

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• We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

  Peter Yarrow

  War, Moving, Long

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• My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

  Francisco Costa

  Positivity, Thankfulness, Mantras

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• A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deception, Deceiving

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• Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Weak, Let Me

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.282

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Peace

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.141, Three Rivers Press

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• For ebbing resolution ne'er returns,
  But falls still further from its former shore.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Fall, Return, Former

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• Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

  Sophocles

  Liars, Lying, Reflection

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Fire, Soldier

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• There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Men, Have A Great Day

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Courage, Fall

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Medicine, Long

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Answers

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• Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

  Francis Quarles

  Cutting, Tree, Soldier

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.32

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• In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  New Year, Years, Two

  "Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on what makes women succeed". Interview with Pattie Sellers, fortune.com. October 05, 2011.

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• My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

  Nia Vardalos

  New Year, Years, Desire

  "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ifs

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

  Herb Elliott

  Training, Enthusiasm, Tests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, New Year, Hope

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

  Nhat Hanh

  Forgiveness, Party, Suffering

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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