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American Quotes by Henry Adams
- American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to…
- American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central…
- After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
- That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never…
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- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
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