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Years Quotes by Henry Adams
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- 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…
- 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…
- A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an…
- [regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the…
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life…
- A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One…
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
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- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
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- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz