I Quotes
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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
“In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.”
“In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.”
“In the United States, unlike any other advanced democracy, money really talks. Our Supreme Court has said that spending money on politicians is a form of free speech. No other court has said that.”
“In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.”
“In the United States, we can talk about ISIS, but we can't talk about Palestine.”
“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”
“In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.”
“In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.”
“In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.”
“In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.”
Source: Art of Money Getting
“In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.”
“In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.”
“In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.”
“In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.”
“In the United terminal in Chicago at five on a Friday afternoon
The sky is breaking with rain and wind and all the flights
Are delayed forever. We will never get to where we are going
And there’s no way back to where we’ve been.”
Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
“In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.”
“In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also the right to a dignified life.”
“In the Universe all things have their owner; and if it does not belong to me, not a tiny speck can I take. Encounter fresh breeze on the river or bright moon between the hills, any ears can take as music and eyes as sights; nothing prohibits anyone from taking and it will never be depleted with consumption, they are Creator’s infinite treasures delighting both you and I. (from Red Cliff Rhapsody by Su Shih)”
Source: MILLENNIUM CHARM Three Novellas. Conflicts.Dislocation. Loss
“In the Universe,” Dag says, “every crossroads is predetermined. The choice is not. I know the tale that will come to pass with each choice, but I do not know which choice will be made.”
Source: The Little Light
“In the universe of atoms, friction is the norm, not the exception. It's this very opposition, this challenge, that ignites the spark of innovation. When the world seems against you, embrace that resistance. It's the sandpaper to your innovation, the very friction that shapes your destiny. Never stop pushing. Never stop dreaming. Here's to the crazy ones who use that friction to sculpt their future.”
Source: Lunora
“In the universe of her thoughts, the rarest, purest fear is that possibly she sees not him through the well, but her own reflection and the sky behind her silhouette. Her mind does not voice this thought, it has no language for the horror.”
Source: How to Break Article Noun
“In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.”
“In the universe, the earth is moving in a circular motion. In an atom, the particles moving in orbit are undergoing circular motion. The circular motion has a tuning with the universal rhythm.....If the concepts taught in each subject are developed by following a circular motion, then the education can lead to the enrichment of the 'Self.”
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”
“In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.”
“In the universe there is an un-measurable, indescribable force which sorcerers call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Sorcerers, or warriors, were concerned with discussing, understanding, and employing that connecting link...Sorcerers, therefore, divide their instruction into two categories; one is for everyday-life state of awareness, the other is for the states of heightened awareness, in which sorcerers obtained knowledge directly from intent, without the distracting intervention of spoken language.”
“In the universe, we are only experiencing what was, in a most furnished, modern, fine-tuned, polished, and advanced manner because cycle of nature is same.”
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
“In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.”
“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”
Source: Stoner: A Novel
“In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.”
“In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.”
Source: The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
Source: Change We Can Believe In
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.”
Source: Change We Can Believe In
“In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.”
Source: Government Loans on Real Estate: Speech of Hon. Leland Stanford, of California, in the United States Senate, March 10, 1890
“In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.”
“In "The Unwanted," the server experiences are real (servers gave me their stories); not just the hilarity of the patrons, but the stories behind the people. Well, except for the ending... love a mystery and a surprise.”
Source: The Unwanted
“In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.”
“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius XI – who had come to see the turmoil and conflict that had convulsed the world in recent decades as symptoms of the deep moral malaise that had afflicted Western society since the time of the Enlightenment, with its corrosive doctrines of rights and popular sovereignty.”
Source: Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy
“In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.”
“In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.”
“In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.”
“In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.”
“In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.”
“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.”
“In the US you have New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami and dozens of other cities; a few of them have a really strong visual character. But even with those there is just too much space between them and too many people.”
“In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with public broadcasting was, "Okay, we'll allow there to be a handful of public stations to do the educational programming that commercial broadcasters don't want to do, but the deal is they can't do anything that can generate an audience, anything that's commercially viable." Anything they do that could be commercially viable could be considered unfair competition to commercial interests and should only be on the commercial stations.”
“In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.”
“In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.”