“ Canada is known and honoured as a steadfast and skilful advocate for international collaboration, reconciliation, and the promotion of peace. ”
- Adrienne Clarkson- Copy
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“ Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
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“ Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ Anybody who accepts mediocrity — in school, on the job, in life — is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises. ”
- Charles Knight- Copy
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“ Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. ”
- Reginald W. Kaufman- Copy
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“ Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. ”
- Corazon Aquino- Copy
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“ The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory. ”
- Violeta Barrios De Chamorro- Copy
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“ Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
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“ Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven. ”
- Charles William- Copy
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“ We always have some responsibility in choosing love or isolation… The older we are, the more responsibility we bear. We need to embrace that responsibility and not be afraid of the task. How we conduct our lives is our affair. The buck truly does stop with us… ”
- Dr John Townsend and Dr Henry Cloud- Copy
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“ Everyone has difficulty with the steps of inner growth, even with the outer obstacles seem easily surmountable. What's more, the prizes of our society are reserved for outer, not inner, achievements. Scant are the tropies for reconciling all the forces that compete to direct our development, although working toward such a reconciliation hour by demanding hour, day by triumphant day, year by exacting year is what underlies all growth of the personality. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
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“ The Eucharist is not itself the sacrament of reconciliation, but in fact it presupposes that sacrament. It is the sacrament of the reconciled, to which the Lord invites all those who have become one with him; who certainly still remain weak sinners, but yet have give their hand to him and have become part of his family… ”
- Joseph Ratzinger- Copy
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