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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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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. – Elihu Root

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Peace
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Elihu Root
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. – Elihu Root

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Government
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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. – Josh Billings

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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer

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Faith

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. – Norman Cousins

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Faith

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. – Herman Melville

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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. – E.V. Lucas

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Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education. – John Hersey

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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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