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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. - Henr

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. – Henry Adams

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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America
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Words
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Politics
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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne. – John Podhoretz

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Politics

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I dont know what that will be yet, but there will be one. – Gary Ackerman

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Politics

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. – Winston Churchill

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Politics

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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Politics

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I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents. – Allyson Felix

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It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. – Eric Hoffer

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Missing You

Yes, I think its really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. – Angela Davis

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relationship

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive? – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Homer

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Drive Safely