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Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disg

Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace. – James Thomson

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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. – James Thomson

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Happiness
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James Thomson
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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? – James Thomson

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amazing
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. – Gertrude Stein

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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. – Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. – Gerrit Smith

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Power to the peaceful! – Michael Franti

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There are laws for peace as well as war. – Titus Livius

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When the students are occupied, theyre not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. – Arlen Specter

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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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