Henry Adams | trust
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.
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Henry Adams | travel
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Henry Adams | society
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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Henry Adams | science
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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Henry Adams | science
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Henry Adams | sad
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.
Henry Adams | power
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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Henry Adams | politics
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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