Tag: peace
member name: Bill Allin
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . .
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December 24, 2007 07:32 PM EST --
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
As I write this on the eve of Christmas Day, 2007, I am reminded that peace across our . . .
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November 20, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and satirist (1742–1799)
Any belief is, almost by definition, . . .
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July 15, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
- Stewart L. Udall, U.S. politician
Though I hesitate to quote politicians at any time (I quote acknowledged statesmen on occasion), Mr. Udall . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
"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 . . .
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November 04, 2006 06:00 PM EST --
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978)
Margaret Mead was an . . .
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February 22, 2007 09:26 PM EST --
"A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused."
- Dale Dauten
As common as meetings are in . . .
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January 13, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Those who live without peace in themselves will not acknowledge the . . .
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January 23, 2008 08:18 PM EST --
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
- Mitch Hedberg, stand-up comic
Good line. Seems like one you would laugh . . .
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February 06, 2008 09:13 AM EST --
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson
I am not one who believes that musicians and other entertainers should not express their opinions publicly, . . .
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March 12, 2008 09:36 PM EDT --
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
- Nelson Mandela, civil rights icon, former president of South Africa (b.1918)
Resentment, bitterness, holding . . .
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September 07, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
- William Cowper, poet (1731-1800)
It would be nice to . . .
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March 03, 2008 06:22 PM EST --
I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you. . . .
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March 01, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
Let me say at the outset . . .
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April 07, 2008 06:20 PM EDT --
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You . . .
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August 17, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
Religion--freedom--vengeance--what you will,
A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
- Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
Almost every war is fought under the banner of a religion. Though the religion . . .
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December 24, 2008 03:58 PM EST --
No matter what religion people subscribe to, or which ones they steadfastly avoid and ignore, everyone seems to have an opinion about Christmas and its celebration. This article will attempt to shed . . .
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April 20, 2008 08:44 PM EDT --
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Let him that would move the world . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter and hero (1853-1895)
When you read the quotation you might be tempted to think that it was . . .
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July 01, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession to their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
Think about it. That person who is . . .
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