Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th... WILL SMITH My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon thei... VIKAS SWARUP life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done. JOHN GRISHAM I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi... FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Work democracy cannot be imposed on people as a political system. It depends on the consciousness on... WILHELM REICH As a psychiatrist, as a human, as a musician, I know how music can bring people together. In this ca... ED SIEGEL Human beings are not just workers, consumers, or even entrepreneurs. They are also parents, children... MUHAMMAD YUNUS Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of t... HU SHIH The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear... TONY SCOTT When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except ... ECKHART TOLLE Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF re... GWEN MOORE Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I'... CHINA MIéVILLE Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opp... STEPHEN R. COVEY Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY You help families focus on the future through their children. SAM WORTHINGTON Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natur... AGNES SMEDLEY Focus on their death as a committed life championed by the values they stood for: honesty, integrity... MILLET The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM As men “think” they are chasing sex and women “think” they are chasing relationships, when i... VALERIE ROSE STERRETT If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN There are women who literally squeeze a baby out of their bodies or get cut open in major surgery, h... MEGYN KELLY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The impact of violent video games upon children is not as clearly established as the impact of viole... ROBERT E. MCAFEE, MD. Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who succes... ALICE WALKER Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by... JONATHAN SWIFT Only when we develop a genuine sense of love and respect towards all members of our human family, wi... JONATHAN CHEN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the d... KEVIN BARRY Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. And see the rivers how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, so... JOHN DYER Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM ...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your c... DAVID BOWIE What is the typical spy? To start with, they think that they are on a mission to save the world. The... JACQUES PAUW Human life has dignity at every age; the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe ou... GARY BAUER The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the ... JOHN F. KELLY Help your father As he ages And loses his strength For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA ANGELIS Romanes eunt domus LIFE OF BRIAN
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