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Adlai E. Stevenson

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
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EDWARD R. MURROW I wish I was home", She said miserably.
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to be fierce as a...
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There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
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JACK FROST I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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RAMANA PEMMARAJU Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
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ADLAI STEVENSON All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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ADLAI STEVENSON A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
ADLAI STEVENSON We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
ADLAI STEVENSON The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can g...
ADLAI STEVENSON I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the ...
ADLAI STEVENSON Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI STEVENSON With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire t...
ADLAI STEVENSON We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our ars...
ADLAI STEVENSON Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech...
ADLAI STEVENSON The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
ADLAI STEVENSON We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
ADLAI STEVENSON In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
ADLAI STEVENSON Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
ADLAI STEVENSON A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.
ADLAI STEVENSON Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. Th...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads us is less important...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
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