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  • Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
        Ben Harper   Best?
  • There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • We make war that we may live in peace.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
        Satchel Paige   Best?
  • A closed mind is a good thing to lose.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But, it is never gone.
        Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy   Best?
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • I try and try to deny that I need you but still you remain on my mind.
        Mariah Carey   Best?
  • God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
        Robert Ingersoll   Best?
  • Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.
        Clint Eastwood   Best?
  • War is Peace
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.
        Richard Stubbs   Best?
  • No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
        Plato   Best?
  • The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.
        Aleister Crowley   Best?
  • Drugs are a bet with your mind.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.
        Arthur Schlesinger Jr.   Best?
  • We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
        Buddha   Best?
  • The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
        Helen Hayes   Best?
  • America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Everything you do or say is public relations.
        Unknown   Best?
  • We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
        Wilfred Funk   Best?
  • I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... [i] t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it! It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode!
        Northern Exposure   Best?

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