Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
ADLAI STEVENSON IISome people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
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The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree
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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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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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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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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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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 relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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That nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.
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To act coolly, intelligently, and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation.
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