"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."
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"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.“
-Black Elk
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