Jackie McCabe
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Jackie McCabe
rated a book it was amazing
Reading for the 2nd time
read in April 2008
Jackie McCabe said:
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The perfect blend of history/biography and prose that reads like fiction, amazing.
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“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.”
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“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.”
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“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
― The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
― The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States
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