Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 5709.
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In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
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In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
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In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
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In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
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In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
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In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
A Distant Mirror -
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
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In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
The Photographs of Ben Shahn
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