"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." — Henry Adams
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
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158 Quotes by Henry Adams
Henry Adams has 158 quotes on this site.
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Friends are born, not made.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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More Breeds Quotes
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one of 285 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter,…
— Bono
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
— Dale Carnegie
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so…
— George Chapman
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
— Felicity Kendal
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
— Abdul Kalam
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Hard work breeds self-respect.
— Pat Summitt
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