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Adlai Stevenson Quotes: If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.
         

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.


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If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.
         



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