Henry Adams

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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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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 involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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