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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

H. G. Wells

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Ahead Father My Own Scythe Time Want
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Dark Evil Good One Surely Unteachable Wellness World
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Best Card Enough Facem Upward Play Politics Strangely Table Way
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Church Comfortable Hell More Much Ought Sailor
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Even Great May Meaning Number People Phrase Realize Repeat Respect Time True
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Artist Call Journalist Rather
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Adapt Education Ever More Now Perish Race
Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. WELLS

Begin But Past

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