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I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

— Charlie Chaplin

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Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

My Autobiography (1964)

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

My Autobiography (1964)

I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

The Great Dictator (1940)

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