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Nothing Quotes by Henry Adams
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are…
- 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…
- Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
- 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.…
- Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
- Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
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