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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ”
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. ”
What Ireland needs now above all else is peace. ”
I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace. ”
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ”
Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy. ”
Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love. ”
My personality can be extreme in all ways, even in positive ways; I've learned that. ”
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. ”
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ”