"...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 of other men; and perhaps, too....reverence for things you can not see."
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Adlai Stevenson, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 85, Issues 1-20, p. 29
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