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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

Other quotes by Henry Adams

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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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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Henry Adams
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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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Other Quotes from
Politics
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I do have a political agenda. Its to have as few regulations as possible. – Dan Quayle

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Politics

Ive rarely kept my distance from kind of – I dont know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing. – David Byrne

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Politics

Weve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture thats really entertainment-based. – Stephen King

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Politics

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. – Fidel Castro

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Politics

Random Quotes

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. – Ava Gardner

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Marriage

Im really proud of myself because Ive pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time. – Katherine Heigl

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Beauty

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Independence Day

Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food