Lost Quote by Lester B. Pearson

“A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.”

Lester B. Pearson

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How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

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Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

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But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those…

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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

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The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on…

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“When you are special to a cat, you are specialindeed. She brings to you the gift of her proference of you, the sight of…

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Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

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As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective…

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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit…

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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider…

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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

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We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or…

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