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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
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In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.
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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
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In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930 -
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
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