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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. ↗

— John Adams

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. ↗

— John Adams

#birds #children #converse #domestic #heroes

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. ↗

— William Adams

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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ↗

— Scott Adams

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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

#effort #efforts #human #human affairs #measure

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#own #parents #passion #teachers #your

A mother who is really a mother is never free. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#free #mother #never #really #who

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer? ↗

— Paula Abdul

#come #get #how #kids #parents