The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
ADLAI STEVENSON IINewspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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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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Not to destroy but to construct
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Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil
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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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Confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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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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Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity
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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 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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