"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
-Dorothy Thompson
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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.“
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
-Dorothy Thompson
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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