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On Peace
Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict.
- Unknown
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.
- Mother Teresa
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do but keep the peace.
- Benvolio Romeo & Juliet
All we are saying is: give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
- John Lennon
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
- Ralph Bunche
The purpose of all war is ultimately peace.
- Saint Augustine
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want world peace, fight for justice.
- bumper sticker
The opposite of war is not peace, It's creation
- Jonathan Larson Rent
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice
- Spinoza
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones,
And a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- Buddha
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.
- Ted Koppel
I believe in the sun even though it is slow in rising. I believe in you without realizing. I believe in rain though there are no clouds in the sky. I believe in truth even though people lie. I believe in peace though sometimes I am violent. I believe in God even though he is silent.
- Unknown
Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
- Ralph Bunche
Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
- Ajahn Chah (Reflections)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
- Galatians 5:22-23
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekov
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mrs. Malaprop(ism) and such(mostly from students)- Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope.
- Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name.
- Although the patient had never been fatally ill before, he woke up dead.
- Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head
- Anteaters are generally found at picnics.
- Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
- Arabs wear turbines on their heads.
- At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair
- At least half their customers who fly to New York come by plane.
- Bach died from 1750 to the present.
- Benjamin Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
- The book was so exciting I couldn't finish it until I put it down.
- The bowels are a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y.
- Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.
- A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.
- The Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility.
- Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
- The conviction carries a penalty of one to ten years in Alabama.
- Damp weather is very hard on the sciences.
- David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar.
- The death of Francis Shaw was a major turning point in his life.
- The difference between a king and a president is that a king is the son of his father and a president isn't.
- Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
- During the Napoleonic Wars the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes.
- Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
- The first thing they do when a baby is born is to cut its biblical chord.
- The flood damage was so bad they had to evaporate the city.
- Female moths are called myths.
- Flying saucers are just an optical conclusion.
- George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country.
- God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma.
- The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands
- The government of England was a limited mockery.
- Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton.
- Greeks invented three kinds of columns: Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic.
- Growing up the trellis were pink and yellow concubines.
- Having one wife is called monotony.
- He sent the package by partial post.
- He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children.
- He was a friendly dog, said an observer with a curly tail and friendly manner.
- He went to jail for making a false deduction.
- He's the type who will cut your throat behind your back.
- Homer also wrote the Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey.
- A horse divided against itself cannot stand.
- The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back.
- The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies.
- In midevil times most of the people were alliterate.
- In one of Shakespeare's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy.
- In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah.
- In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java.
- In the ninteenth century, pheasants led terrible lives.
- Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.
- Joan of Arc was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.
- Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
- In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
Of Freedom
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.
- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live, at least a while. And, dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies, that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
- William Wallace (Mel Gibson) Braveheart
I have often asked myself why human beings have any rights at all. I always come to the conclusion that human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them.
- Vaclav Havel
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. President
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954-), US TV personality, actress
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
- Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Polish-German socialist, writer
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
- James Baldwin
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
- Patricia Sampson
A man can be free even within prison walls. Freedom is something spiritual. Whoever has once had it, can never lose it. There are some people who are never free outside a prison.
- Unknown
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many a boomerang does not return but chooses freedom instead.
- AnonymousIt is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom; Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
- William Penn
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
- Me and Bobby McGee;
Kris KristophersonSelah
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Read also previous issue' articles:
Bumper Stickers
Things Found Only in America
Devil in the Church
Generosity Begins at Home
Murphy's Other Laws
Some Interesting Facts
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