Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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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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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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