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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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About Henry B. Adams

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

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

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