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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that corr

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. – Abigail Adams

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Intelligence
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams

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Marriage
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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power
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. – Aristotle

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Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge. – Nick Wechsler

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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