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“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”

Henry Adams · Intelligence

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Henry Adams

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.

Trust

Henry Adams

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Society

Henry Adams

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

Power

Henry Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Experience