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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

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

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Education
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Henry Adams
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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America
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Henry Adams
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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Liberty
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Henry Adams
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Other Quotes from
History
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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America

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History

The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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History

Im not giving up my history and what Ive done in my music because I love it and Im very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. – LL Cool J

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History

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk. – Sally Field

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History

Random Quotes

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. – Michael Burgess

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environmental

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, its not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know. – Eric Ripert

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Happiness

Fear is stupid. So are regrets. – Marilyn Monroe

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Fear

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. – Bob Dylan

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Beauty