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Whatever there is when there isn't war has to be invented. What do people do in peace? Peace has barely been thought. (p306)

— Maxine Hong Kingston Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989)

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In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

The Fifth Book of Peace (2003)

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. (p26)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

I hope my writing has many layers, as human beings have layers.

Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers (1982)

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29)

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Erasmus Adagia (1508)

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

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