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| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters | | Uncategorized | |
| If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. | | Children; Example | |
| If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. | | Uncategorized | |
| Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. | | Creativity; Imagination | |
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| In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. | | Uncategorized | |
| In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead. | | Hospitals | |
| In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win | | Gambling | |
| In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. | | Angels | |
| In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful. | | Uncategorized | |
| In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine | | Nature | |
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| In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. | | Uncategorized | |
| In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage. | | Uncategorized | |
| Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. | | Independence | |
