Henry Adams Quotes on Leadership
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Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.