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Quote by John Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imaginat

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. – Donald Trump

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

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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. Its the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. – Philip Guston

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats

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I never thought of politics as a profession. – Georgios A. Papandreou

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes

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