In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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