One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSThe 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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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