"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

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Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

Abigail Adams

#Communication Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Political Quotes

“There can be no liberty without the law”
“He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.”
“It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.”

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“The Creator favors the man who LOVES over the man who HATES. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them...and onto YOU.”
“Nothing is worth anything to dead men.”
“Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.”
“It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.”
“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”

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