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In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
Source: Speech Chicago, december 1856 -
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
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Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.
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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Source: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) -
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
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Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
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Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
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Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
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Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
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Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
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