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“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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