Given afair wind,

Given afair wind,
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.
  

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Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.
Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.
Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.
Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.