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Quote by Abigail Adams
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams

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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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. – Indira Gandhi

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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. – Louise Slaughter

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There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. – Susan Orlean

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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