The ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIFlattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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All committed, for our safety, to its security and peace.
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Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady
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Be solved if we have the will, the courage
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And when we lose faith in the system
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.
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There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.
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We have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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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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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.
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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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You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
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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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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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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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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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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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I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy
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The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
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