You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIPreserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane
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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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