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The proper study of mankind is woman. - Henry Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman. – Henry Adams

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Art
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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Faith
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams

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Travel
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Humanity
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. – Warren Buffett

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Humanity

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. – Douglas Adams

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Humanity

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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Humanity

Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5 – Bible

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Humanity

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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. – Ninon de LEnclos

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strength

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. – Tadao Ando

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Courage

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. – Michel de Montaigne

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Fear

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. – Noah Webster

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Government