I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.Adlai Stevenson
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We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
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This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old an ugly subtlety
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In youth, everything seems possible but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense
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