#peace

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#change #change the world #corps #going #idealist

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#accomplishments #book #bring #external #i

The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#corps #could #i #interviewed #live

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#anyone #corps #draft #easier #fort

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#both #both sides #broad #cooperation #goodwill

The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob? ↗

— Jane Siberry

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Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity! ↗

— George A. Smith

#does #find #himself #his #man

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace