Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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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.
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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.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.
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The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
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No one wants peace more than me.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
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And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.
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Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation.
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'Recent Gains in the Quest for Peace' in The World tomorrow Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 1928), p. 8; including a quote from the Communist song 'The Advancing Proletaire.'
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My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
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I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.
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I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.
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..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
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Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you.
