That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIChange is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations
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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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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say
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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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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.
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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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