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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context. ↗

— Ted Stevens

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After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field. ↗

— W. Richard Stevens

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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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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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