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Absence Quote by Jane Addams

“I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.” quote by Jane Addams — Download Open image

“I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.”

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