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Quote by Nelson Mandela
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. – Nelson Mandela

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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela

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Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. – Nelson Mandela

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Peace
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

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Peace

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. – Thor Heyerdahl

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The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the worlds most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement. – John McCarthy

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Peace

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellows viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. – Harry S. Truman

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Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had. – Sara Teasdale

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The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. – Norbet Platt

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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

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