Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLSA 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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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