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1. Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who later became president of his country, had this to say about peace:
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
What was the name of the South African leader that became his partner?
2. Who was the Trappist monk who made this observation in the twentieth century?
"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."
3. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist. He was not a politician, a soldier, or world traveler. In his lifetime, he was not highly regarded but future generations began to see his works as profoundly significant. In "Walden Pond" (1854) he advocated a simple life in harmony with nature. What was the central core idea in "Civil Disobedience"(1849)?
4. What 'common sense' patriot had this to say in the context of the American Revolution?
"I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace."
5. Which man who was Pope from 1978 to 2005 made this observation?
"Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being"
6. Who was the late night talk show host who summed up inner peace this way? (Ed McMahon could tell you).
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
7. Disabled people often cannot correct the disability but may find effective means to compensate. Which famed Cambridge Professor of Physics and Cosmology who opined this?
"My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically."
8. Inner peace can be found in many forms. What popular actor found his this way?
"It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use"
9. This quotation is from a German philosopher who had great influence on such people as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini:
"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness,to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
10. Here are a few lines from a popular poem. Do you remember the name?
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story."
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