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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. – John Adams

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. – John Adams

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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. – John Adams

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Men
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Power always thinks… that it is doing Gods service when it is violating all his laws. – John Adams

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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. – John Cage

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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. – C. Northcote Parkinson

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A setting sun still whispers a promise for tomorrow. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all. – Aristotle

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Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. – Rumi

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