"A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste."

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Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 39), 1952.

Adlai Stevenson I

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“I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.”
“I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.”
“Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.”
“It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.”
“Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.”

Source : "The Progress of a Biographer". Book by Hugh Kingsmill. Chapter "Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154, 1949.
“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
“God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin, we have only to think of the cross, where His Son was tortured, mocked, and beaten because of sin. Our sin”
“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.”

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