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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.
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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
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In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
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In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
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In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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