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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise,

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. – John Adams

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I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. – John Adams

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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – John Adams

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But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. – John Adams

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La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle. – John Quincy Adams

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I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time. – Aeschylus

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I know, to banish anger altogether from ones breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by Gods grace. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. – Catherine Douzel

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The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and hes still as funny as hes ever been, and hes still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, Ill still be able to work. – Denis Leary

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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam – whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost. – Janis Karpinski

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