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"I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war."
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"Peace is not the absence of fear but the presence love and care."
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"If you can't find peace inside you, you will not be able to find it anywhere else."
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"Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life."
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"You can regain your inner peace with a daily prayer."
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"For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence."
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"You find peace not by creating but by giving."
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"As satyagrahis we should always claim and we did that we are always ready to make peace with our adversaries. As a matter of fact we are always eager for peace and when we found that the door to peace was opened we decided to enter it."
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"With peace of being, you can overcome any pain."
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"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality."
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"Be the light of peace to drive away the darkness of hatred."
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"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
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"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
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"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."
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"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
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"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."
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"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."
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"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
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"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
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"While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students."
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"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."
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