You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIThe 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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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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By better cars on longer credit terms.
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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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