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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convinci

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. – Elihu Root

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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from mans original savage nature. – Elihu Root

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Peace
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Elihu Root
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Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. – Elihu Root

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Peace
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Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. – Elihu Root

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Patience
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At least the fundamentalists havent tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. – Richard Dawkins

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Faith

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. – Jan Karon

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Faith

The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Faith

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. – Martin Luther

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Faith

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Im really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind. – Sarah McLachlan

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When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

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I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isnt really about loving cars. Its sort of about needing them. – Matthew Barney

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car

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille

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