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Erasmus
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch

Willa Cather
“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

Alan W. Watts
“The common error of ordinary religious practice is to mistake the symbol for the reality, to look at the finger pointing the way and then to suck it for comfort rather than follow it.”
Alan Watts

Anne Lamott
“Every sound is by definition a stop, which is how we can hear it.”
Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

Erasmus
“We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.”
Desiderius Erasmus, Against War

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