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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity. ↗

— Bryan Adams

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Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas 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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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ↗

— Douglas 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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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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Home is pretty utopian. ↗

— Scott Adams

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— 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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