Quote by Tom Lehrer
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

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When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. – Tom Lehrer

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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. – Tom Lehrer

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When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense. – Shimon Peres

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. – Elihu Root

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I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity. – Ehud Olmert

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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules. – Charlize Theron

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