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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, a

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. – Lester B. Pearson

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. – Marvin Gaye

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For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace. – Ehud Olmert

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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. – Louis Finkelstein

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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace. – Nhat Hanh

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