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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. – Anthony Burgess

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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

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True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because mans words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions. – Lester B. Pearson

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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. – Alexis Carrel

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Let us have peace. – Ulysses S. Grant

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in ones life. – Peace Pilgrim

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. – Christopher Morley

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The purpose of all war is peace. – Augustine of Hippo

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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. – J. Donald Walters

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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. – Newt Gingrich

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