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The mind resorts to reason for...

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Teachers affect eternity. Ther...

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The whole fabric of society wi...

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

He never labored so hard to le...

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence Ђ' of talking without meaning Ђ' is never effaced.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

A boy's will is his life, and ...

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

A senator is like a begonia - ...

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Unity is vision; it must have ...

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

As a historian, he felt it his...

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Politics are a very unsatisfac...

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Modern politics is, at bottom,...

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Good men do the most harm....

Good men do the most harm.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The new American, like the new...

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The work of internal governmen...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

During an election campaign th...

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

I firmly believe, that before ...

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

I am not prepared to deny or a...

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Church and State, Soul and Bod...

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

What a vast fraternity it is,-...

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The spider-mind acquires a fac...

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

My favorite figure of the Amer...

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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