"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."

-- Moshe Dayan

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“Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.”
“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
“Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.”
“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought. Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
“Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.”
“The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.”
“Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.”

Source : Speech on Democratic Development, Pluralism and Civil Society delivered at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, www.akdn.org. April 07, 2005.

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