Quote by John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. – John Ruskin

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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I dont mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. – John Ruskin

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. – John Ruskin

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For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps. – Camryn Manheim

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If you want to make peace, you dont talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Moshe Dayan

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A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. – Kwame Nkrumah

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I feel that my fathers greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. – Caroline Kennedy

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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space — how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. – John Ciardi

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I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if its proactive and there is positive intent behind it. – Michael J. Fox

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Its both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. – Amy Tan

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