Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIEvery age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
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And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.
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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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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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It is upon us whether we will it or not.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.
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You will go away with old, good friends. And don’t forget when you leave why you came.
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There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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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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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
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Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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