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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928 -
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
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In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
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In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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In its final stages the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
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In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
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In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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In the emerging era, clashes of civilization are the greatest threat to world peace, and an international order based on civilizations is the surest safeguard against world war.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p.321 -
In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) -
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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