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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are…
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Change happens at the level of the individual
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system…
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More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of…
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding…
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Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can…
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There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.
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We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which…
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The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.
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Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the…
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To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of…
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Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
— Robert Mugabe
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How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.
— Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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And I have yet to find one single individual who has attained conspicuous success in bringing down enemy aeroplanes who can be…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.
— John Masefield
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The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
— Hermann Goring
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The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their…
— H.G. Wells
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Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time,…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
— Claude Debussy
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To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,…
— George Orwell
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Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.
— John Amery
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Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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