“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” — Henry Adams Quote

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

“Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”

“The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.”

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

“When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.”

“I think Jose Aldo is a great fighter, has a great history, no one can deny that, but many people think I should go to bantamweight because I'm too small, and instead I went to 155 to fight someone who came as a top contender in the UFC. I was beating Ben Henderson before getting injured. Aldo won't fight at 155 because he doesn't want to.”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“If the Democrats want to make an efficacy or merit-based argument with respect to the Electoral College, then by all means make it. It ought to be based in history and fact not fanciful revisionist history, and it should be made not just during an election year because of discontent with the electoral outcome.”

“I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.”