"One can go to war alone, but you can't build peac alone."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jacques Chirac

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
“I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.”
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
“Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.”
“Say only what you mean.”
“So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.”

Source : Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com
“I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jan 21, 2015
“Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”

Source : "A Lesson for the Day; or The Christianity of Christ, of the Church, and of Society". "The Dial" Magazine, (p. 196), October 1940.

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