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Henry Adams Quotes

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918

Topics

Responsibility Free Liberty Absence

I would like to be able to be both a film actor and a stage actor - to be an American actor in the style of a lot the English actors who do films. They are these wonderful actors who can do everything.

Style American Actor Everything Film

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

Me Interesting Class Obsession Where

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.

Michael Beschloss

America You Country Congress System

Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

America Go Will Over Contracts Big

If you manage things properly - and, listen, I'm a business guy. I've got to prioritize spending in all my business career to prevent my business from going bankrupt. The federal government has got to start doing that eventually as well.

Business Government Start Doing You

There are, of course, fat characters in books out there, some of them quite enduring and famous. But they tend to be creatures of young-adult or commercial fiction.

Famous Fat Out Fiction Books Course

Should a girl like me, in whom the milk of human kindness flows copiously for everyone, from protein-shy Hottentots to the glandular obese, actually aim a few swift boots at the prone form of Sen. Phil Gramm? Nah. But it's tempting.

Kindness Girl Me Boots Aim Milk

There's no national strategy to deal with combating terrorism and foreign fighters.

Strategy Terrorism Deal Fighters

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

Work Weakness Better Person Try See

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

Work Hard Work Beautiful Purpose You

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Team Compromise Comedy Doing Know

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

Christina Milian

Family Relationship Happy Feet Back

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