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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

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
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
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Cynicism Health Humor Ill
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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Bear Expect Had Have Kind People Some Three Trouble We
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Between Catastrophe Education History Race
The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Begin But Past
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Do Have Matt Really What You
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
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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Come Dissension Dock International Made Politician Prompted Sure Time
Advertising is legalized lying.
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Advertise Legalize Lie
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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Against Animal Child Hand Harsh Himself Ma Miriam Turn Nature Reared Revbel Unnatural
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Down Feel Stand Today Yesterday
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
We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Century Change Conception Education Graduation Hardly Made Organization Several
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Ahead Father My Own Scythe Time Want
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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Ashes Can Choke Far Free Have Lead Leader Navish

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