Quote by Dorothy Thompson
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another an

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson

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Inventive man has invented nothing — nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. – Dorothy Thompson

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. – Dorothy Thompson

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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity – an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. – Bruce Barton

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Faith

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. – Marian Wright Edelman

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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied. – Charles Hodge

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. – Khalil Gibran

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause. – Plutarch

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France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire

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Im not happy all the time, and I wouldnt want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody. – Dolly Parton

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