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«If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.»
«In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.»
«If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.»
«In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
discord, moral excellence, quietness, seasons, tumult, tumults
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«If you want peace, work for justice.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Justice,
Peace
| Keywords:
justice of the peace
«Ignorance is the peace of life.»
«In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Military,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, hence, neglected, prepare for, ruin, safety, state of war, The Art of War, vital
«In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
executive, representatives, solely
«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Peace
| Keywords:
blast, blasted, blasting, blows, ears, Ha Ha Ha, humility, imitate, modest, nostril, sinew, sinews, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening, stillness, stretch, summon, summoned, summoning, teeth, the Action, The Tiger, tiger, wide
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