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The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attention #call #cover #dancer #effort

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#out #politics #someone #take #wants

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#any #become #boy #i #just

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#dealers #left #make #new #washington

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#american #been #blake #books #favorite

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#condense #deal #emotions #enjoy #express

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break. ↗

— McLean Stevenson

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #break #definitely #i

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

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