"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
-Abigail Adams
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.“
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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