Charles Adams Quotes

Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.

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You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

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It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.

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Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

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Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

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We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

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Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.

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Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.

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The course has a strong practical element. Although it covers the theory of corrosion, the main emphasis is on practical advice based on actual examples from the yachting industry.

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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

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If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

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As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

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