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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.

H. G. Wells

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Between Catastrophe Education History Race
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
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
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advancement Broken Friendship Path Social Strawn
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
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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Even Great May Meaning Number People Phrase Realize Repeat Respect Time True
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Adapt Education Ever More Now Perish Race
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Dark Evil Good One Surely Unteachable Wellness World
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
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Essence History Human Idea
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Century Change Conception Education Graduation Hardly Made Organization Several
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
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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Bridge Device Embankment Engineer Iron Machinery Nothing Obligate Railway
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Change Get There Through Trouble What World
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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Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Gamble Look Men Not Own Pay Reasonable That

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