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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko