Quote by Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

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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Art
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Words
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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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Other Quotes from
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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History

Thats history. I say history because it happened in the past. – Murray Walker

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History

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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History

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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History

Random Quotes

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will. – Author Unknown

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Goodbye

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. – Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction. – Bob Riley

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Hope

We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair

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Cancer