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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof! – John Adams

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. – John Adams

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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. – Philip Roth

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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. – Anton Chekhov

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. – Quintilian

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I cant say Im happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened. – Mary Hart

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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest — people understand that. – Don Murray

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. – William Wordsworth

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Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way. – Christiane Amanpour

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