Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Henry Adams

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Friends are born, not made.

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Ruth Negga

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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.

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

Ruth Negga

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Ruth Negga

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

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I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

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I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Ruth Negga

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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Ruth Negga

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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Ruth Negga

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

Ruth Negga

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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

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Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.

Ruth Negga

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams

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I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Ruth Negga

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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Ruth Negga

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Ruth Negga

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams

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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Adams

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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Ron Paul

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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Henry Adams

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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Ruth Negga

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My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

Ruth Negga

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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

Ruth Negga

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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ruth Negga

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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Ruth Negga

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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Ruth Negga

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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Ron Paul

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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Ruth Negga

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I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

Ruth Negga

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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Ron Paul

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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

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Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Ron Paul

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts

Henry Adams

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Ruth Negga

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

Ruth Negga

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Ruth Negga

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

Ruth Negga

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Ruth Negga

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams

I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

Ruth Negga

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Ruth Negga

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

Ruth Negga

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

Ruth Negga

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Ruth Negga

Henry Adams

Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Ruth Negga

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

Ruth Negga

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

Ron Paul

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Henry Adams

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Ruth Negga

My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

Ruth Negga

I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.