"Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.“
-Thomas Hardy
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"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would."
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"The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."
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"When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch."
-Michelle Branch
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"The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security."
-Chuck Hagel
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"As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week."
-George J. Mitchell
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
-Eric Burdon
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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