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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!
Life and Living
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Words
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Survival
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Generations
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Peace
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Freedom of Speech
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
Civilization
Adlai E. Stevenson

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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
Platitudes
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson

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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Understanding
Adlai E. Stevenson

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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
Freedom
Adlai E. Stevenson

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We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.
Politicians and Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Age and Aging
Adlai E. Stevenson

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Goals
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Books - Reading
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Ancestry
Robert Louis Stevenson

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
Youth
Robert Louis Stevenson

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Fear
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Marriage
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politicians and Politics
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action
Robert Louis Stevenson

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.
Present
Robert Louis Stevenson

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