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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

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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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Begin But Past
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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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Ahead Father My Own Scythe Time Want
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Church Comfortable Hell More Much Ought Sailor
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Action Ad But Come Make Sober Sorry Wise
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Halo Indignation Jealousy More
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS

Essence History Human Idea
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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Between Done Hand Have Measure might One Only Radio Success True
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Artist Call Journalist Rather
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday
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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Bad Come Community Crime Crises Failure Measure State Wend
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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Attempt Century Comfortable Country Ifty Intervening Perception Rely Series Year
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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Attempt Collapse Country Deal Evert New Plainly Social Socialism Worl

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