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Now if you've ever been out for a nice, peaceful walk by the lake and happened to see some ducks having sex, you've undoubtedly been alarmed, because it looks like gang rape.
People would come in, find their own seat, move it a bit, actually, and then stay a while, and then interestingly, people themselves attracted other people, and ironically, I felt more peaceful if there were other people around.
And when we did, the whole audience collectively exhaled, and a few people actually wept, and then they filled the auditorium with the peaceful boom of their applause.
This year, Germany is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the peaceful revolution in East Germany.
It stored samples of it in closed jars which were found after the peaceful revolution.
In 1989, he was the leader of the peaceful revolution and he nearly became the first freely elected Prime Minister of the GDR until it came out that he was an informant.
The ending of the Stasi was something tragic, because these officers were kept busy during the peaceful revolution with only one thing: to destroy the documents they had produced during decades.
Fact is, we're living in the most peaceful moment in human history.
But instead of a peaceful journey to work, each day begins with fear.
It became almost like a public service to the citizen, to the protester, to the activist, because they had a very simple and efficient and peaceful tool to confront both police and media authority.
One of the best examples is the contrast between the relatively peaceful situation in Somaliland, which benefited from sustained grassroots peacebuilding initiatives, and the violence prevalent in the rest of Somalia, where peacebuilding has been mostly top-down.
There’d be a pompous paper parliament who remained out of touch, and who ignored the people's protests about all the paper cuts, then the peaceful paper protests would get blown to paper pieces, by the confetti cannons manned by pre-emptive police.
In short, can we carve out a future which is peaceful and mutually prosperous, or are we looking at a great challenge of war or peace?
Once a peaceful haven for the Hazaras, it had now turned into the most dangerous city in Pakistan.
It took two hours and seven minutes to go up, and it was the most peaceful two hours and seven minutes.
And I pictured a world filled with beautiful, peaceful, compassionate, loving people who knew that they could come to this space at any time.
I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.
It was a beautiful country, beautiful, peaceful country.
The Land of Pi was not necessarily the most peaceful place, and that's why the numbers of the kingdom needed the musketeers.
It somehow has this peaceful quality, and at the same time it's full of energy, it's dynamic.
H.M. died at the age of 82 after a mostly peaceful life in a nursing home.
The rest of Edward IV's reign was peaceful, but upon his death in 1483, the bloodshed resumed.
Now, cities can make the world more sustainable, they can make the world more equitable, I also believe that connectivity between cities can make the world more peaceful.
We all know the story of Europe after World War II, where industrial integration kicked off a process that gave rise to today's peaceful European Union.
Cities and countries are learning to aggregate into more peaceful and prosperous wholes.
But since that time, the trade and investment volumes across the straits have become so intense that last November, leaders from both sides held a historic summit to discuss eventual peaceful reunification.
After all, major regions of the world have been exceptionally peaceful; extreme poverty rates around the globe are trending down; and more than two billion people, most notably in Asia, show spectacular improvements in their standards of living.
It's bright and peaceful, and when you stand up in front of it, it's really hard to believe these were military barracks at the end of the '40s.
Anti-terror measures quickly turn into state repression without strong protection for minority communities and for peaceful debate; this needs to be supported by a robust, independent local media.
But ... we've got to do this by really beefing up the global networks of citizens around the world, powered by people who are working hard every day, and taking personal risk for a future world that is more peaceful, just, open and free.
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