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Quote by Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams

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power
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Henry Adams
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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

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Life
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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Art

Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. Its nice. – Ricky Williams

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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners. – Rowan D. Williams

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Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We dont have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women. – Claire McCaskill

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The English like eccentrics. They just dont like them living next door. – Julian Clary

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