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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- 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.
- The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
- Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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