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Adlai Stevenson: “What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.”

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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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Adlai Stevenson

Editor's note · Context

Stevenson reflects on the complexity of human actions and the unknown factors that influence them.

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