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Social Quotes by Henry Adams
- [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care…
- 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…
- Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
- My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest…
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