Tag: peace
member name: Bill Allin
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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May 25, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world"
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
As much of an ardent admirer as I am of Mohandas Gandhi--his philosophy of life, learned by me as a child, helped . . .
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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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