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Henry Adams Quotes
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence-of talking without meaning-is never effaced.
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Funny Quote
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Life Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Inspirational Quote
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
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