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

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams

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Society
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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Faith
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History
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Never in our countrys history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. – Jo Bonner

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History

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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History

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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History

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. – Irving R. Kaufman

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History

Random Quotes

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money. – Author Unknown

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Gambling

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and theres no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic. – Jeremy Rifkin

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Science

I was informed yesterday that theres a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing. – Tom Hiddleston

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amazing

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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Memory