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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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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai Stevenson

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Earth
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson

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Politics
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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson

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Computers
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I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. – George Sanders

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. – Frank M. Garafola

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. – Charles Lindbergh

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. – Les Brown

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