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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.
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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 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 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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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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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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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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