"If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars."

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Sophie Kerr

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Pageantry Quotes

“The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.”
“Historically, I've done movies, but I've got a family already. I've been doing this for many years, and the idea of working consistently on something that I really, really love, and the steadiness of it, was really appealing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.”

Source : Song: Roll Me Away, Album: The Distance
“The way you live your life depends on you.”
“And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.”
“The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.”

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”
“I have a few methods that I use. One of them that kind of works but is a bit a boring is that I lock myself in the studio and I have four hours to work and come up with stuff. If nothing's sticking in four hours, then I can stop.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.
“We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.”

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