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Quote by John Adams
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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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams

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While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot. – Frank Rich

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. – e. e. cummings

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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