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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Age Born Distribute Does Energy Equally Going Measured Nature Old Others People Seventy Some Some People Strong Tired While Years

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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Aggressiveness Creates Destructive Element Fear Human Human Mind Mind Most

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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Topics: Achieved Created Maintained Never Order Passivity Peace Will

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: End Feeling Felt Much Nothing Too Too Much

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Absence Aggressive Alternatives Conflict Creative Passive Peace Presence Responding Responses Violence

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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Analyze Causes Except Fear Find Happenings Nothing Out Persistent Refusal Truth

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Afraid Begin Live Longer Only

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The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Afford Back Forth Gas Go How People Prices Ridiculous School See Work

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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Determines Fact Itself Liberty Survives Ultimately Way Whether Which

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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

~Dorothy Thompson

Topics: Eat Hardly Instinct Less Strong Than Worship

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 9th, 1893

Died: January 30th, 1961

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