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Quote by Samuel Adams
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. - S

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. – Samuel Adams

Other quotes by Samuel Adams

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. – Samuel Adams

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Life
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Samuel Adams
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. – Samuel Adams

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Nature
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Samuel Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. – Samuel Adams

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Freedom
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Samuel Adams
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Other Quotes from
Business
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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds. – Marshall McLuhan

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Business

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they dont already know? – Marlee Matlin

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Business

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. – Gore Vidal

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Business

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. – Russell Baker

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Business

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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. – Frank B. Kellogg

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Peace

But times of stress and difficulty are inevitable in life. Mental hygiene means preparation to deal with such times. – Mental Health Bulletin, Illinois Society for Mental Health, 1928

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Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. – Charles Dickens

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Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

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Manners