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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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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. – John Ruskin

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Obedience
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John Ruskin
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As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. – John Ruskin

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Clothing
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John Ruskin
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I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples. – Frank B. Kellogg

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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! – Georg Buchner

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Peace

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. – Gerry Adams

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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. – Calvin Coolidge

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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When I tried to play something and screwed up, Id hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it. – Dimebag Darrell

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As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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