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Quote by Jim Harrison
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of W

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. – Jim Harrison

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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, its about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. – Jim Harrison

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After a lifetime of world travel Ive been fascinated that those in the third world dont have the same perception of reality that we do. – Jim Harrison

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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldnt be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. – Mos Def

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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. – Elihu Root

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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. – Omar Bongo

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The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace. – Prem Rawat

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America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. – Hunter S. Thompson

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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. – Leonardo da Vinci

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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. Its not politically viable its not morally right its just not going to happen. – Michael Bloomberg

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