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In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
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In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
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In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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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, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359) -
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
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In the long run, we are all dead.
A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3 -
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
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In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
On War (1832) -
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
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