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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to stu

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy…. – John Adams

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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. – John Adams

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Government
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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. – Epictetus

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Tiger father begets tiger son. – Chinese Proverb

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Death, the final, triumphant lover. – Bela Lugosi

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

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There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph. – Martin D. Ginsburg

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Im looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. – David Bowie

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