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. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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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 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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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