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CARY FUKUNAGA The Pacific Mozart Chorale in Berkeley asked four different composers (the other three are John Adam...
DAVE BRUBECK I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and tha...
SHERMAN EDWARDS Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better tha...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA If Jefferson'...
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R. J. CUTLER If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote:
I must j...
JOHN ADAMS ... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed...
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ALLEN JOHNSON In the years that followed the Harrison campaign, many candidates—from Colonel James 'Young Hickor...
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH Don't Panic
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existence...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callen...
KARL ROVE At the September council meeting a fifth officer was approved. Since that meeting, the department ha...
DON BLACK The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he mi...
PAUL C. NAGEL Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
DALE ADAMS Don't ever underestimate my kindness for weakness. I have a heart of gold, but the strength of titan...
STEPHANIE ADAMS You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it.
KINDLE KORNER This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
DOUGLAS ADAMS So long, and thanks for all the fish.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of co...
THOMAS MALLON [Adams and Sellars show us its seductive horror, the painful dilemma that no amount of hindsight can...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first i...
THE IMAGINEERS Out of the frying pan into the fire. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
ABIGAIL ADAMS Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Belief is only the beginning... (Stephanie Adams Quote For GODDESSY.com)
STEPHANIE ADAMS Minimalism isn't just one kind of music. Although minimalism got its start in classical music, the b...
ADAM CRANE ADAMS asked us what we needed and since we had been borrowing other emergency response vehicles from...
MAURICE MORALES [Larry Adams, 33, has been confined to a room in University Medical Center since April, when he rece...
LARRY ADAMS It took a lot of bottle for Tony (Adams) to own up.
IAN WRIGHT I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costum...
MAMIE GUMMER We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war up...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art ph...
WILLIAM EGGLESTON The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of
the word "Infinite".
Infin...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The promise of peace is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS Having trustable friends is rare these days.
ROBERT ADAMS When nothing goes right...go left.
ROBERT ADAMS The good people in history are never remembered. The people that do get remembered are the ones who ...
ROBERT ADAMS It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get." Notice that I didn't say ...
CAT ADAMS Saying that you never lie, is a lie.
ROBERT ADAMS History tends to repeat itself only because the people who make it, try to cover it up.
ROBERT ADAMS It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a ...
KEVIN SWANSON I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth...
RAND PAUL The key to success is to have a comprehensive understanding of the lock - John Alexander T
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Boston has different needs than Adams, which has different needs than Andover. All the money gets bl...
BETH BRESNAHAN No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, 'Oh, Julie Adams ...
JULIE ADAMS Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN I came across a lot of material I wanted to use for the Adams book and wasn't able to,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's...
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)
JOHN HEYWOOD I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Ca...
PAM GRIER I'm a playboy trapped in a playmate's body. (Stephanie Adams Interview with Playboy)
STEPHANIE ADAMS Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.
CHUCK NORRIS I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
JOHN PAUL WARREN What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the ...
CHARLES A. BEARD Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
RONALDINHO These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as arti...
MALCOLM ROGERS Judge Bradfield did not intend to injure Mr. Adams or place him in fear of a battery.
BRIAN EINHORN Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of fact...
HENRY ADAMS It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush ...
SAMUEL ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other pe...
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ANDREW RILSTONE Odysseus...sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.
RICHARD ADAMS hornier than a bunny on ecstasy
KYLE ADAMS This kind of preventative maintenance has helped Adams Electric have one of its best years yet for r...
RON PLANK Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would da...
CHANTAL PETITCLERC Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rag...
JOHN ARMSTRONG John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputi...
CHERI BROWN A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
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JOHN ADAMS I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaratio...
JOHN ADAMS The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too m...
JOHN ADAMS I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possess...
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JOHN ADAMS As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by ...
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
JOHN ADAMS I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit ...
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JOHN ADAMS Thomas Jefferson still survives.
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JOHN ADAMS The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
JOHN ADAMS Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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JOHN ADAMS Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
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JOHN ADAMS Genius is sorrow's child.
JOHN ADAMS I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
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JOHN ADAMS Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
JOHN ADAMS The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with al...
JOHN ADAMS A government of laws, and not of men.
JOHN ADAMS Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, s...
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JOHN ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN ADAMS The happiness of society is the end of government.
JOHN ADAMS Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the impo...
JOHN ADAMS Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implie...
JOHN ADAMS Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove...
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...
JOHN ADAMS The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed...
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JOHN ADAMS All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitutio...
JOHN ADAMS Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is d...
JOHN ADAMS ...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in a...
JOHN ADAMS The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a ro...
JOHN ADAMS Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, sp...
JOHN ADAMS The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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JOHN ADAMS ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue a...
JOHN ADAMS Jefferson still survivies.
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JOHN ADAMS All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitut...
JOHN ADAMS Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.
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JOHN ADAMS You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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JOHN ADAMS We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morali...
JOHN ADAMS The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are th...
JOHN ADAMS No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
JOHN ADAMS In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and...
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JOHN ADAMS Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
JOHN ADAMS But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the publi...
JOHN ADAMS The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion
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JOHN ADAMS My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contriv...
JOHN ADAMS Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and...
JOHN ADAMS Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
JOHN ADAMS Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right...
JOHN ADAMS It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their co...
JOHN ADAMS The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dread...
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JOHN ADAMS Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies
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JOHN ADAMS Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
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JOHN ADAMS Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so ext...
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JOHN ADAMS It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
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JOHN ADAMS Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot conf...
JOHN ADAMS I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found with...
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JOHN ADAMS The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and e...
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JOHN ADAMS I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times...
JOHN ADAMS I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened...
JOHN ADAMS Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by p...
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JOHN ADAMS There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God
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JOHN ADAMS Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being nece...
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JOHN ADAMS And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from t...
JOHN ADAMS ...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next a...
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JOHN ADAMS I made the four minutes of the prelude entirely with the sound of hand-tools. At one point it sounds...
JOHN ADAMS Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and divis...
JOHN ADAMS These bickerings of opposite parties, and their mutual reproaches their declamations, their sing-son...
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JOHN ADAMS Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
JOHN ADAMS The most important gap is that a whole host of disorders, called blood disorders, have been forgotte...
JOHN ADAMS I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition...
JOHN ADAMS If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?
JOHN ADAMS I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, t...
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JOHN ADAMS Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
JOHN ADAMS Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make yo...
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JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all...
JOHN ADAMS Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to JOHN ADAMS Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would ...
JOHN ADAMS This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or JOHN ADAMS We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all s...
JOHN ADAMS ...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check.
JOHN ADAMS Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a ca...
JOHN ADAMS I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read...
JOHN ADAMS But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish ...
JOHN ADAMS As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
JOHN ADAMS Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
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JOHN ADAMS The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity
JOHN ADAMS The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge; I mean the love of...
JOHN ADAMS Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
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I must j...
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JOHN ADAMS I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
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JOHN ADAMS A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those...
JOHN ADAMS Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery i...
JOHN ADAMS In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionatin...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her Amer...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Of all the foundations of establishments for pious or charitable uses, which ever signalized the spi...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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