The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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