Paul Theroux Quotes
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.
Hamid Karzai
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Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and well-informed and credible advocates on behalf of the United Nations. They help us educate audiences worldwide and rally support on key issues of the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
Jackie Chan
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
Patrick Lencioni
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
Mandy Patinkin
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
Kailash Satyarthi
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
Kara Lindsay
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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
Wangari Maathai
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
Umberto Eco
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
Saad Hariri
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
Natan Sharansky
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Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
Marianne Williamson
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald
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Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch between payment providers and creates less competition for services.
Brian Armstrong
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We are not asking whether all digital computers would do well in the game nor whether the computers at present available would do well, but whether there are imaginable computers which would do well.
Alan Turing
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The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux