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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.

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

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

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

by Henry Adams Found in: Miscellaneous Quotes,
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

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

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

by Henry Adams Found in: Education Quotes, Fact Quotes,
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