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Quote by Joseph Conrad
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perha

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth
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Joseph Conrad
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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Joseph Conrad
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. – Yitzhak Rabin

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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. – James Q. Wilson

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Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. – Francesco Petrarch

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