Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with a

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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