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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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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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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#grammar-humor #humor

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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