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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” — Dalai Lama

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“Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.” — Herman Melville

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“In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.” — Julia Child

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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.” — André Gide

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.” — Tennessee Williams

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“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.” — Oscar Wilde

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