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Quote by Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes

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

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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. – Adlai Stevenson

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

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Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson

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The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. – Author Unknown

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. – Orson Rega Card

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The man was on his knees, trying to retrieve each of his ugly words that were now scattered on the floor. But, of course, it was too late. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

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Never miss a good chance to shut up. – Will Rogers (verification of author per The Estate of Will Rogers, CMG Worldwide

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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negros great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. – Thomas de Quincey

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One wants to be together with ones family. Thats what families are about. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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