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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of demo

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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Courage
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Graham Greene
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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Innocence
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Peace
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others. – Lao Tzu

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Peace

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. – Lester B. Pearson

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Peace

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. – Abdallah II

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Peace

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. – William Allen White

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Peace

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A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe

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Religion

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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Truth

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. – Mike Pence

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legal

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. – Pliny The Elder

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Reputation