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"I fought for peace in the fifties."
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"Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love."
"A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!"
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention."
"Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers."
"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
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"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."
"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
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