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“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”

— Henry Adams

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

— Henry Adams

Education

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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

— Henry Adams

Hope

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

— Henry Adams

Education

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

— Henry Adams

Freedom

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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

Life

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