On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIYou can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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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Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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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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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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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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Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.
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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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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone
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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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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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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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A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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In short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
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That you can gather votes like box tops
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Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one?
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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That if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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The guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers,
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
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