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Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
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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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Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it's all the difference in the world.
Source: Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ends only with death.
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Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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