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The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musicologist
Peace Activist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
New York City
New York
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Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.
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I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know I'm not dead, so I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.
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But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.
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