Thomas à Kempis Quotes
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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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.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.
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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
