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Famous quotes containing the word adams:

    “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “A friend in power is a friend lost.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “The Answer to the Great Question ... Of Life, the Universe and Everything ... Is ... Forty-two.”
    —Douglas Adams (b. 1952)