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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Speech Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 march 1954) -
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
Leon Harris - The Fine Art of Political Wit (1964) -
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Speech in Urbana, Illinois (1951) -
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952) -
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
My Best Short Stories (2014) 75 -
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
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A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
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A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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