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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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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle

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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. – Oliver Tambo

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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. – Thomas Paine

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. – Elihu Root

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