"Some day science may have the existence of……" — Henry Adams
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
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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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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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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 Blowing Quotes
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You…
— J. G. Ballard
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the…
— Abdallah II
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
— Gary Busey
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
— George H. W. Bush
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any…
— Dennis Miller
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
— Ramakrishna
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
— Gillian Flynn
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm…
— David Hasselhoff
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to…
— Rajneesh
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Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball.…
— Dominique Wilkins
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