On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIIgnorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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And when we lose faith in the system
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it’s the keeper of the Western culture, …
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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A hungry man is not a free man.
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To have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
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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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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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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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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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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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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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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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The boldness to face them, face them square.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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