"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

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Maria Montessori

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Educational Quotes

“Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.”
“I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.”

Source : James Herriot (2011). “Every Living Thing”, p.7, Open Road Media
“The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.”
“You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.”
“Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.”

Source : "Terms of Crisis" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2014.
“The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.”
“I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.”
“And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.”

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