Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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