"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots". - Napoleon Bonaparte "I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace". - James Conrad "Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us:  avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride.  If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace". - Francesco Petrarch ...

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"Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason". - John Wesley "Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night". - Glade Byron Addams "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive". - Harold Whitman ...

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"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." - Colette "I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all ...

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