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VACATIONS : No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. (Elbert Hubbard, U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, 1856-1915)

VARIETY : What is food to one is to others bitter poison. (Lucretious. Roman poet and philosopher, 99-55 BCE)

VEGETERIANISM : If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney, British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock ban, and poet, activist, Born 1942)

VENGEANCE : An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VENGEANCE : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VICTORY : Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

VIEWPOINT : There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)

VIOLENCE : He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. (Latin Bible, in the Gospel of Matthew)

VIOLENCE : As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VIOLENCE : There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. (Kingman Brewster, U.S. educator, president of Yale University, and diplomat, 1919-1988)

VIOLENCE : I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

VIOLENCE : Violence is what happens when we donâ€™t know what else to do with our suffering. (Parker J. Palmer, U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)

VIOLENCE - WAR : America-the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Unknown Source)

VIOLENCE - WAR : America – the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Richard Rayner, British author and editor, Born 1955)

VIRTUE : There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Unknown Source)

VISION : The best vision is insight. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

VISION : Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. (Dorothea Brande, U.S. writer and editor, 1893-1948)

VISITATIONS : Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure. (Portuguese proverb)

VOICE - POWER : There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard. (Arundhati Roy, Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

VOTING : A man without a vote is a man without protection. (Lyndon B. Johnson, politician who served as the 36th President of the United States, 1908-1973)

VOTING : A man without a vote is a man without protection. (Unknown Source)

VOWS : In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners. (Donald DeGrasse, U.S. mechanical engineer, Born 1963)

VULNERABILITY : If a cock ruffles his feathers, he is easy to pluck. (Burmese proverb)