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“The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.” —Tran Duc Luong (b. 1937), President of Vietnam “Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.” —Storm Jameson [Margaret Storm Jameson] (1891-1986), novelist, critic “Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” —Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ” —Buddha “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” —George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Irish dramatist, novelist and critic “In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.” —Fritjof Capra (b. 1939), physicist “We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.” —Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel “The deepest...dream is not the hunger for money or fame; it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation.” —Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1946), novelist and essayist “Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.” —Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), philosopher, mathematician “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president “Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president “If men could combine thus earnestly, and patiently, and harmoniously to some really worthy end, what might they not accomplish?” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), philosopher, author, naturalist “We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.” —Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady “To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.” —Alfred Alder (1870-1937), psychiatrist “Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” —Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader
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