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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams

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	Henry B. Adams
	(1838-1918) American historian.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Friends are born, not made. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.