I Quotes
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“In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.”
“In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.”
“In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.”
“In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.”
“In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.”
“In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.”
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.”
Source: Gertrude
“In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.”
“In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.”
“In any case, you can't turn back the clock.”
“In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
“In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.”
“In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'”
Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“In any circumstance, call on God.”
“In any circumstance, keep your courage.”
“In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!”
“In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.”
“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.”
“In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
“In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.”
Source: Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government
“In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two”
“In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.”
“In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education.”
“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they have seen of oppression and violence, they have gotten more brave, more strong, more fearless than they were. You see this refusal to just keep quiet and do as you are told.”
“In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.”
“In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality”
“In any contentious debate, some people will find it advantageous to align themselves with the crowd, while a smaller number will come to see themselves as persecuted outsiders. This may especially hold in a field like climate science, where the data is noisy and the predictions are hard to experience in a visceral way. And it may be especially common in the United States, which is admirably independent-minded.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.”
“In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.”
“In any country when you throw something in somebody's face, it's disrespectful.”
“In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.”
“In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!”
“In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.”
“In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.”
“In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.”
“In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.”
Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers
“In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into the creative arts. So, if you want to pursue a career in something like acting or writing, the motor and the drive have to come from you. And that does take courage because, A, a lot of people want to do it, and B, it's hard. So, you have to have the guts to put yourself out there and go for it in spite of the world saying, "You know, it would be so much easier, if you didn't pursue this." So, it does take guts.”
“In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.”
“In any crisis, clear, consistent, calming, compassionate messaging from local, state/provincial, and national leaders is pivotal to people coming together to overcome adversity.”
“In any culture where agendas have shaped ethics, we will find a culture that has in fact purged itself of ethics. And that means that in time there will be no culture.”
“In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.”
“In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.”
“In any debate seeking the correct answer I see logic as the Kurgan and ideology as Ramirez, I love Sean Connery too, but there can be only one.”
“In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.”
“In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.”
“In any democratic country you have more than one view.”
“In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.”
“In any discussion of diversity, over time the probability of mention of restaurants becomes one.”