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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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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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God
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Thomas Merton
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war. – Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him. – Gustav Stresemann

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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. – Bryan Ferry

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. – Dalai Lama

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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view. – Ed Miliband

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