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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
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 watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
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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 universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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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.
Source: 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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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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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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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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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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Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
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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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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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