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"Dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight."	Swedish Carol
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."	André Gide
"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace."	Bhagavad Gita
"To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering."	Barry Morris Goldwater
"The triumph of justice is the only peace."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."	Thomas Jefferson
"This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with: "Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. Grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever."	Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
"If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless."	Henry Alfred Kissinger
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."	Henry Miller
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."	Doris Mortman
"He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses."	Siddha Nagarjuna
"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power."	Will Durant
"That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain."	Thomas Jefferson
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."	(Carl) Frederick Buechner
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."	Victor Hugo
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B. J. Gupta	Caitlin Matthews	Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
Confucius	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Croesus of Lydia
Deciderius Erasmus	Doris Mortman	Dwight David Eisenhower
Eddie Myers	Eve Denise Curie	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry Miller
Herbert Mitgang	Honoré de Balzac	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
James Lane Allen	Jawaharial Nehru	Jesse Louis Jackson
Jill Eikenberry	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Greenleaf Whittier
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Foster Dulles	John Muir
Kahlil Gibran	Larry Eisenberg	Larry Kramer
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mahatma Gandhi	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Marvin	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Napolean Hill	Napoleon Bonaparte
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Noel Coward	Og Mandino
Patrick Henry	Paul Liu	Proverbs 17:28 Bible
Psalm 37:11 TLB Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	Rodan of Alexandria
Samuel Adams	Siddha Nagarjuna	Swedish Carol
Thomas Jefferson	Vartan Gregorian	Victor Hugo
Will Durant	William Blake	William Shakespeare
William E(dwart) Gladstone	William F(rancis) Claire	Woody Allen
(Carl) Frederick Buechner	(John) Calvin Coolidge