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There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake… — Aristotle
We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in… — Paul Wellstone
People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort… — Barack Obama
. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and… — Soren Kierkegaard
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one… — Elbert Hubbard
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they… — Bertrand Russell
That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others. — Lucy Larcom
New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view. — Albert Einstein
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of… — Ronald Takaki
We have had philosophies, we have ideologies, we have so many kinds of enterprises but despite that there are so many differences and the differences… — Nirmala Srivastava
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread,… — Michael Lerner
In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims. — Friedrich Schiller
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension… — Thomas Berry
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy,… — Chogyam Trungpa
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It… — Karen Armstrong
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,… — Abraham Lincoln
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them… — Walt Whitman
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do… — Stephen Jay Gould
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that… — Douglas Fairbanks
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media… — Nick Denton
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up,… — Eugene Jarecki

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