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Naturally, the common people don't want war ...
but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them
they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is the future, not the past.
- Terry Goodkind
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
It is nearly a certainty that some
of your expectations will not be met today -
choose Joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Hide not your talents,
they for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The past does not equal the future.
- Anthony Robbins
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
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