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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate. ↗

— Nina Garcia

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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. ↗