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Quote by Thomas Merton
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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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. – Thomas Merton

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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. – Mahatma Gandhi

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In Hawaii, we have something called Hooponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. – Duane Chapman

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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. – Andre Malraux

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If you wish for peace be ready for war. – Proverb

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People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Natures memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. – Henry Cantwell Wallace

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Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. – Author Unknown

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. – Bill Veeck

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I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold. – Charles Dickens

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