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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Henry Adams

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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Brooks Adams

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My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today. ↗

— Richard Adams

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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect. ↗

— Felix Adler

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