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A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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America
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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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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. – Ed Koch

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power

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem

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power

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if mans power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. – Madame de Stael

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power

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As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They wont have the patience to pick them out. – Martin Yan

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Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past. – Kenny Loggins

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