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- INNOCENCE
- INNOCENCE
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- INOCULATION
- INOCULATION
Abraham Lincoln once listened to the pleas of the mother of a soldier who'd been sentenced to hang for treason. She begged the President ...
- INNOVATION
- INNOVATION
On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet st...
- INSIGHT
- INSIGHT
The class of noisy boys in a German primary school was being punished by their teacher. They were assigned the problem of adding together all the ...
- INSIGNIFICANT
- INSIGNIFICANT
Success is often reached through the little stuff. When Pat Riley coached the Los Angeles Lakers from 1982 to 1990, the team won four NBA ch...
- INSULTS
- INSULTS
One New Year's Eve at London's Garrick Club, British dramatist Frederick Lonsdale was asked by Symour Hicks to reconcile with a fellow m...
- INTEGRITY
- INTEGRITY
(see also CHARACTER)
Scientists now say that a series of slits, not a giant gash, sank the Titanic. The opulent, 900-foot cruise ship sank...
- INTENTIONS
- INTENTIONS
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford.
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- INTENTIONS, good
- INTENTIONS, good
Alexander de Seversky, U.S. aviator and engineer, was once visiting a fellow flyer in the hospital. The young man had just lost his leg; ...
- INTERDEPENDENCE
- INTERDEPENDENCE
Xvxn though my typxwritxr is an old modxl, it works wxll xxcxpt for onx of thx kxys. I'vx wishxd many timxs that it workxd pxrfxctly....
- INTERPRETATION
- INTERPRETATION
At the height of her fame as the other woman in the Ivana and Donald Trump breakup, Marla Maples spoke of her religious roots. She believed...
- INTERRUPTION
- INTERRUPTION
Saturday night, of Thanksgiving weekend, and the Cocoanut Grove was packed. Waiters were setting up extra tables to hand...
- INTIMACY
- INTIMACY
The University of Northern Iowa once offered a general art course that included a most unusual exercise. The teacher brought to class a shopping ...
- INTIMIDATION
- INTIMIDATION
Joseph Laitin, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, remembers his former boss: ...
- INTRODUCTIONS
- INTRODUCTIONS
William Ferguson, chairman of Nynex Corporation, tells this story about Albert Einstein in heaven: Einstein was having difficulty finding pe...
- INVENTIONS
- INVENTIONS
All invention type stories are listed under INGENUITY.
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- INVESTMENT
- INVESTMENT
Charles Francis Adams, 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: "Went fishing with my son today--a day was...
- INVITATION
- INVITATION
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- INVOLVEMENT
- INVOLVEMENT
When Rosina Hernandez was in college, she once attended a rock concert at which one young man was brutally beaten by another.
No ...
- IRONY
- IRONY
English novelist William Golding tells with delight of the policewoman in a Wiltshire town near his home who gave him a parking ticket the day after...