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- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - )
- Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
- Susan Taylor
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
- Marvin Gaye
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J. P. Donleavy
- The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
- John P. Grier
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