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- I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
- Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
- Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
- Byron J. Langenfeld
- From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
- Robert Kennedy
- If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
- Srully Blotnick
- The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
- Charles Schwab
- Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best.
- Napoleon Hill
- 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 (1924 - )
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