What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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