We Are Peace

It was once said that “men build too many walls and not enough bridges”. Based in Manchester, we believe in building bridges between people regardless of race, age, color, gender and nationality.

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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan

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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” ― Francois Mauriac

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“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?” ― Christopher Paolini

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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” ― Annie Dillard

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen

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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ― Mortimer J. Adler

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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

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“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ― Albert Einstein

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“It was summer in Chicago and in the distance the broken outlines of the boats on Lake Michigan gently swayed in the sunlight.” ― Daniel Amory

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“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.” ― George Eliot

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“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.” ― k.d. lang

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“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” ― Toni Morrison