"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. [Psalms 34:14]"

Bible on peace
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"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on pain
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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness
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"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on happiness
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"Our true nationality is mankind."

Wells, H.G. on racism
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"I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin."

Tutu, Bishop Desmond on racism   

"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on pain
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Pavese, Cesare on pain
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it."

Twain, Mark on nations
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

Will, George F. on pessimism
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on famous last words
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"Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant."

Swayze, John on nations   

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

Twain, Mark on nations
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"It is far easier to make war than to make peace."

Clemenceau, Georges on war
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

Brebner, J. Bartlett on nations
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"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

Bradbury, Malcolm on nations   

"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."

Kubrick, Stanley on nations
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"The French complain of everything, and always."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on nations
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"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

Singer, Isaac Bashevis on pessimism   

"In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."

Readon, Daniel on pessimism
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

Marquis, Don on pessimism
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"A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him."

Pound, Ezra on jesus christ
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on mind
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"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

Baldwin, James on persecution   

"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."

Cannon, Damien on pessimism
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."

Shaw, George Bernard on nations   

"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on pessimism
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"You've got to take the bitter with the sour."

Goldwyn, Samuel on pessimism   

"I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist."

Harvey, Paul on pessimism
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Keller, Helen on pessimism
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