Muriel Lester Quotes

#1. Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.

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#2. Once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

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#3. Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

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#4. A victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

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#5. How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

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#6. How ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

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#7. Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

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#8. The first casualty in every war is truth.

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#9. It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

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#10. It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

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