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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Massachusetts
Frances Snow Compton
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
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The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint responsibility is restraint therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Man loves most that which is his own.
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
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Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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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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My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions one is a continual tendency towards politics the other is family pride and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.
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History is only a value of relation.
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A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
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American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
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The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
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