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Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Accuracy
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Change
Adlai E. Stevenson

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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson

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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
President
Adlai E. Stevenson

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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Principles
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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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Brotherhood
Adlai E. Stevenson

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Speakers and Speaking
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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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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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Idleness
Robert Louis Stevenson

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech
Robert Louis Stevenson

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Goals
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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Humankind
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Consequences
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun