"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Experience

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This quotation examines the core nature of Experience as articulated by Abigail Adams. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Experience provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. She is widely considered to be an influential figure in the founding of the United States, and was both the first second lady and second first lady of the United States, although such titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women in American history who were both the wife of a U.S. president and the mother of another U.S. president.

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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries “Give, give!”"

— Abigail Adams
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"Great necessities call out great virtues."

— Abigail Adams
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."

— Abigail Adams
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

— Erma Bombeck
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

— Barnett Cocks
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"Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen."

— Mary J. Blige
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"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

— Margaret Thatcher
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