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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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"If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying."
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"Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!"
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"Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care."
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"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air-the song of sweet, still silence rare."
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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."
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"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."
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"O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love."
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"The world is a peaceful place.We make it hateful by forgetting our grace."
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"Pursue peace and harmony with all men."
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"If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world."
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"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."
School
"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
"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."
Peace
"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
"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."
Learning
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."
Life
"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."
Family
"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."
War
"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."
Friendship
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
Study
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