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- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
- Unknown
- Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
- Anne O'Hare McCormick
- Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
- The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
- Solomon Short
- Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
- Ruth Westheimer
- A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
- Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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