The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSIn 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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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