56 ordspråk av Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams föddes den February 16th 1838 och dog den 27 March 1918 - US writer
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 No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean |
| Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
| One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. |
| One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. |
| Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems |
| Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. |
| Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. |
| Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. |
| Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. |
| Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. |
| The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies |
| The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin |
| The proper study of mankind is woman. |
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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