In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

About John Adams

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John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War...

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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

I have spent a good many years… being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

—Stephen King

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

—Shelley Winters

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

—George Bernard Shaw

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