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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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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. – John Adams

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An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. – Adam Smith

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. – Ada Louise Huxtable

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. – Thomas Jefferson

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