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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
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We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
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You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.
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Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.
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The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.
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