"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.“
-Andre Gide
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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