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Man Quotes by Adlai E. Stevenson
- You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
- It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not…
- A hungry man is not a free man.
- To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
- What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
- Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
- Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
- Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
- 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…
- A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
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