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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
— U Thant
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Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
— Jack Benny
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.
— John Coltrane
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It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen.…
— Morton Feldman
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The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse…
— Thomas Berry
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As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the…
— Ronald Reagan
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to…
— Karen Nussbaum
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Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror.…
— Albert Einstein
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Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we…
— Joanna Macy
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If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
— Philip Larkin
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The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads,…
— Emma Goldman
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We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the…
— Elise M. Boulding
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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
— Mark Twain
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Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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