The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, … - John Adams

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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

John Adams

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Freedom, Power, Thinking, Writing

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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

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It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

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I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show. . . I think, "that's a show I'll never get back". . . I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

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Donna Tartt

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

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I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

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He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

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