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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, es

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams

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alone
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Henry Adams
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent. – Epictetus

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Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – Erich Fromm

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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965

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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Funny, I dont feel any more powerful today than yesterday. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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Like everybody in show business, you think youre going to wake up one day, and its all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business – the ones I talk to, anyway. – Rod Stewart

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