Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 4582.
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
The New Yorker, March 28, 1953, quoted in David Remnick, Reporting It All: A.J. Liebling at 100, The New Yorker, March 29, 2004 -
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
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Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain.
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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