#om

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#defense #defense budget #expenditures #force #gap

Freedom rings where opinions clash. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#clash #opinions #rings #where

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#beauty #come #death #desires #dreams

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#ardor #boredom #excites #known #scholars

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#comes #final #future #hangs #world

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bearing #dress #found #god #man

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#annihilation #care #committed #craft #dependent

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization