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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles. ↗

— Jack Adams

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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers. ↗

— Bryan Adams

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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ↗

— Henry Adams

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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. ↗

— Henry Adams

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ↗

— Joey Adams

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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗

— John Adams

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