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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
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Information is not power. If information were power, then librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet.
Speech at Social Work Futures Conference, Houston, Tex., 23 May 1994 -
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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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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Instead of asking - ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask - ''How much good? How much joy?''
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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.
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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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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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