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8984 quotesCommunism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Communism and Socialism
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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Power
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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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 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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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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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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Husbands
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Vocabulary
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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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Failure
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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Consequences
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Money
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
World
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