Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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