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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individ

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. – Irving Babbitt

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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Irving Babbitt
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society
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Peace
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A peace deal requires agreements, and you dont make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies. – Richard Holbrooke

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Peace

Im on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and weve never been closer. – Mandy Patinkin

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Peace

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. – Pablo Neruda

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Peace

Its well known Im a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and its something that has given me great stability and tools that I use. – Tom Cruise

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Peace

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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. – Michael Gove

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. – Benjamin Franklin

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Just as pieces stitched together in a quilt warm our bodies, scrapbooks bind together memories to warm our hearts. – Author Unknown

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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. – Timothy Leary

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