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.
quote by Dorothy Thompson
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There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
quote by Ernest Istook
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
quote by Henry Kissinger
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For The Sake of Having That Kind of Dedication
When those symptoms of love,
Begin to show signs...
They are design to kill?
Focus your emotions on an exit.
Do not sit and wish for alternatives to arrive.
They wont.
And usually don't.
When love becomes a twisted mix,
Of misunderstandings and heated arguments.
Focus your emotions on an exit.
Do not sit and wish for alternatives to arrive.
They wont.
And usually don't.
Unless you are one of those lucky ones.
Who decide to remain medicated.
To numb every feeling you have.
For the sake of having that kind of dedication,
Interpreted as an appreciation for maintaining tolerance.
And that is annually celebrated.
Complete with a pill popping done and chased by vodka.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Be angry for the truth
Anger is not always bad
Specially when it is for the truth
If truth is wounded,
Humanity is wounded
So the truth should be brought forward
Even at the cost of tranquility and non-violence
With anger or violence
When all the alternatives of peace are ceased
For the truth cannot be held so long
Else falsehood will take it over
Though it is bound to perish by nature
Yet might do a cosiderable damage
Before being uprooted.
poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
quote by Ronald Reagan
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I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
quote by Charlie Haden
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Peace and Conflict
Peace is laughter ike a musical bell,
Conflict is people crying,
Peace is everything being well,
Conflit is people dieing,
Peace is a very wonderful thing,
Conflict can be used t pursue peace,
Peace is a sound that makes you sing,
Conflict is the least luxurious thing,
Peace is sought after
And sometimes found,
Confit is punishment,
Paying the price,
Peace is being on safe ground,
Conflict makes people with heart of ice,
Peace you find in your heart,
Conflict tears our minds apart,
So remember these words and you'll live well,
Peace is laughter like a musical bell...
poem by Sasha Julia
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I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
quote by Glenn Hoddle
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The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
quote by Abbe' D'Allanival
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Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Of all the thirty-six alternatives, running away is the best.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
quote by Shimon Peres
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
quote by Maya Angelou
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I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
quote by Marvin Olasky
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
quote by Marilyn vos Savant
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
quote by Marilyn vos Savant
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Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
quote by Theodor Adorno
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.