Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
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Of Eleanor Roosevelt She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Mr. Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person' Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority'
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It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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