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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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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – John Ruskin

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I fought for peace in the fifties. – Pete Seeger

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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and Ive seen it three times, is Bondarchuks War and Peace. Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era. – Baz Luhrmann

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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us. – Pat Robertson

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As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. – Rene Cassin

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Ive always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor. – Barbara Feldon

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You go back to those films of the 40s and 50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other – the wordplay. I think weve really lost that in movies. – Clive Owen

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