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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifi

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton

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God
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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Peace without justice is tyranny. – William Allen White

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For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance. – Nick Rahall

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. – John F. Kennedy

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But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. – Jonathan Mayhew

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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles

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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. – Ovid

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. – Jean de la Bruyere

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