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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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Let the world go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!
John F. Kennedy
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sir Francis Bacon
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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas a Kempis
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
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My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dame Edna Everage
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
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You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive.
Yoda
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I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.
Queen Amidala
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We work for peace. We pray for peace. But we are all citizens of the nation. And we meet our responsibility, as that responsibility is defined by our leadership in the nation.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Communism is what happens when, in the name of Mind, men free themselves from God.
Whittaker Chambers
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Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.
Osama Bin Laden
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The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
Frederich Nietzsche
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Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
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They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
George W. Bush
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We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
John Kerry
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Elliot
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To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Seneca
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe
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If you're in the public eye, you're either a womanizer or you're gay. I'm neither one.
Clay Aiken
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Northern Exposure
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
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Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Muriel Strode
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein
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The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
Paul McCartney
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero
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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
William Shakespeare
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Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
Moses Hasid
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurber
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