"Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations."

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Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

Willy Brandt

#War Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Being Thankful Quotes

“Every idea must have a visible enfolding.”
“Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.”
“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.”
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.”
“The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
“I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.”

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