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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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.Henry Brooks Adams
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Henry Brooks Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
Henry Brooks Adams
You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man
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