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If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs.


Alice Walker

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CRAIG GROESCHEL love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers
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JIM MCCANN I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will...
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PLATO We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
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CATHERINE WOOD I think that would be impossible, ... It would be a lack of respect, to stop now and say I don't car...
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ADOLF HITLER Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal ...
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JAMES ROBERTS So let us build them shelves where They might fight among themselves and leave the people be who wan...
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ROBIN URBANSKI And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if the...
QURAN We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whatever decision has been taken, would be done in collaboration with them so if they are willing to...
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FAY ROBERTS I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try t...
WIZ KHALIFA Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient cl...
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PETER ROLLINS We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER If we are killed or captured, you should carry on the fight.
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd thi...
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JOVAN KIROVSKI Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for so...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We have the brain power and the technology. We should fight for those parts that we can do better th...
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OSAMA BIN LADEN We will not surrender and we will fight with courage. We will face our fate together with the Palest...
AHMED SAADAT I like the Iowa fight song so much you just want to sing it with all the Iowa people. I love Iowa an...
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JACK MCGUIRE I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The main thing I got to portray in the show to the world is that fighters are people. We have a whol...
KIT COPE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.
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LAURIE A. HELGOE We're all sisters and brothers. So like color and those issues now, if we dealt with it much, much l...
BAI LING I guess if we really thought that, I would stay on and fight,
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ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love.
ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ...
ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER