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Sunday January 3, 2016

The knowledge acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions—a knowledge not gained 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, and a little reverence for things you cannot see.



—Adlai Stevenson II
   American politician and diplomat(1900-1965)

Source: address at Princeton University, 1954





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