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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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"In quietness we find inner peace."
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"If you wish to possess your soul, be patient."
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"Don't react to any fuming argument."
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"If your heart is your home, you can be happy anywhere."
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"The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!"
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"Be a peacemaker."
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"Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places."
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"It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world."
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"If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul."
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"Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force."
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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."
Life
"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco."
Life
"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."
Life
"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."
School
"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."
Change
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
"My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I."
War
"What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist."
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"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory."
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