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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.

H. G. Wells

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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Abolish Danger Death Made Nothing Purpose Revolution Simply Uffer Worldwide
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Become Between Catastrophe Education History Human More Race
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
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Do Have Matt Really What You
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty Beholder Heart Heaven
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Best Card Enough Facem Upward Play Politics Strangely Table Way
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
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Certain Doctrine Heaven Jesus Kingdom Main Most Revolutionary Teach
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
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
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
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Advancement Broken Friendship Path Social Strawn
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Experiment Man Search Truth Unsatisfied
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
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday

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