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Quote by Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. – Henry Adams

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Life
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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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Liberty
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Other Quotes from
Politics
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy cant be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the worlds problems arent his predecessors fault. – Sarah Palin

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Politics

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. – Margaret Cho

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Politics

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didnt exactly win us any friends. – Fred Frith

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Politics

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. Its always been the same, but its far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people. – Enrique Iglesias

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Politics

Random Quotes

If I dont need the money, I dont work. Im going to spend time with my family and friends, and Im going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else. – James Spader

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Learning

You teach best what you most need to learn. – Richard Bach

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best

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent. – Machiavelli

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Boldness

To get nostalgic about other peoples music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. – Neil Peart

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Future