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Quote by Doris Lessing
When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely

When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I cant say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. – Daniel Berrigan

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The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in peoples bones so deeply, we arent even aware of it. You crush the opposition thats how we bring peace. – Rob Bell

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War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. – William McKinley

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You dont have to have fought in a war to love peace. – Geraldine Ferraro

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