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

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

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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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Henry Adams
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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Travel
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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. – Herodotus, The History of Herodotus

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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug

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History

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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History

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. – Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes

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