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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

- Henry Adams | Habit and Tradition Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

- Henry Adams | Education Quotes

A friend in power is a friend lost.

- Henry Adams | Friends and Friendship Quotes

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams | Friends and Friendship Quotes

They know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Adams | Knowledge Quotes

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.

- Henry Adams | Life Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

- Henry Adams | Politics Quotes

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

- Henry Adams | Politics Quotes

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

- Henry Adams | Taste Quotes

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams | Teachers and Teaching Quotes

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

- Henry Adams | Truth Quotes

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

- Henry Adams | Friendship Quotes

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

- Henry Adams | Friendship Quotes